ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,538, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Piezoelectric microelectromechanical resonator device and corresponding manufacturing process" was invented by Federico Vercesi (Milan), Lorenzo Corso (Ruginello, Italy), Giorgio Allegato (Monza, Italy) and Gabriele Gattere (Castronno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical resonator device has: a main body, with a first surface and a second surface, opposite to one another along a vertical axis, and made of a first layer and a second layer, arranged on the first layer; a cap, having a respective first surface and a resp...