ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,940, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"MEMS tri-axial accelerometer with one or more decoupling elements" was invented by Alessandro Tocchio (Milan) and Francesco Rizzini (Passirano, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS tri-axial accelerometer is provided with a sensing structure having: a single inertial mass, with a main extension in a horizontal plane defined by a first horizontal axis and a second horizontal axis and internally defining a first window that traverses it throughout a thickness thereof along a vertical axis orthogonal to the horizontal plane; and a suspen...