US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on March 24 for "Microelectromechanical mirror device with piezoelectric actuation and optimized size" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,107, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Microelectromechanical mirror device with piezoelectric actuation and optimized size" was invented by Nicolo' Boni (Mountain View, Calif.), Roberto Carminati (Piancogno, Italy) and Massimiliano Merli (Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical device has a first tiltable mirror structure extending in a horizontal plane defined by first and second horizontal axes and includes a fixed structure defining a frame delimiting a cavity, a tiltable element carrying a reflecting region, elastically suspended above the cavity...