US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Dec. 2 for "Method for manufacturing a capacitive pressure sensor and capacitive pressure sensor" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,162, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method for manufacturing a capacitive pressure sensor and capacitive pressure sensor" was invented by Paolo Ferrari (Gallarate, Italy), Flavio Francesco Villa (Milan), Roberto Campedelli (Novate Milanese, Italy), Luca Lamagna (Cassina de' Pecchi, Italy), Enri Duqi (Milan), Mikel Azpeitia Urquia (Milan), Silvia Nicoli (Casatenovo, Italy) and Maria Carolina Turi (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a method for manufacturing a micro-electro-mechanical device. The method includes the steps of forming, on a sub...