US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 1 for "Three dimensional stacked microstructures for use in gyroscopes and other devices" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,874, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Three dimensional stacked microstructures for use in gyroscopes and other devices" was invented by Khalil Najafi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sajal Singh (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jae Yoong Cho (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three-dimensional (3D) micro-scale shells are presented with selectively removed regions/openings and which can be used in sensors and actuators, including gyroscopes. Example shells consisting of a suspended ring-shaped resonator that is supported using multiple beams that are not in the plane of the ring...