ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,581, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Micro-mechanical resonator having out-of-phase and out-of-plane flexural mode resonator portions" was invented by Hakhamanesh Mansoorzare (Orlando, Fla.), Ting-Ta Yen (San Jose, Calif.), Jeronimo Segovia-Fernandez (San Jose, Calif.) and Bichoy Bahr (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: forming a die including a cavity; coupling an anchor to the die; coupling a first resonator to a side of the anchor, in which the first resonator is suspended over the cavity and is operable to bend towards or away from a bottom of the cavity; and coupl...