ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,452, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"MEMS speaker" was invented by Gokhan Hatipoglu (Milpitas, Calif.), Onur I. Ilkorur (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pablo Seoane Vieites (Gauting, Germany), Christopher Wilk (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Peter C. Hrudey (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices having speakers such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) speakers. A MEMS speaker can include an electrostatically driven, corrugated MEMS structure to move air without a magnet, coil, or traditional speaker membrane, and thus provide a low-power,...