US Patent Issued to Atomic Machines on April 8 for "Electrical contacts using an array of micromachined flexures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,912, issued on April 8, was assigned to Atomic Machines Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Electrical contacts using an array of micromachined flexures" was invented by Fabian Goericke (Berkeley, Calif.), Klaus Zietlow (Berkeley, Calif.) and James Stolken (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact having a first contact member having an exposed surface, the exposed surface having irregularities, undulations, or asperities that form one or more high points and low points on the exposed surface, a second contact member having a contact base surface, a plurality of electrically conductive flexures extending from the contact base ...