US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Sept. 22 for "Circuit and method for driving a micro-electro-mechanical resonator of a gyroscope with a reduced excitation of spurious harmonics" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,643, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Circuit and method for driving a micro-electro-mechanical resonator of a gyroscope with a reduced excitation of spurious harmonics" was invented by Gabriele Gattere (Castronno, Italy) and Marco Garbarino (Cusago, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving circuit is implemented for a driving resonator stage of a MEMS gyroscope including at least a first and a second electrode and a movable mass The driving circuit includes a synchronization stage which receives an electrical position signal indicative of the position of the movable mass ...