US Patent Issued to Atomic Machines on Nov. 11 for "Microelectromechanical systems power relay" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,659, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Atomic Machines Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Microelectromechanical systems power relay" was invented by William Boettcher (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Meshot (Berkeley, Calif.), Fabian Goericke (Berkeley, Calif.), Gregory C. Ghahramani (Berkeley, Calif.), Klaus Zietlow (Berkeley, Calif.), Jeffrey Holden (Berkeley, Calif.) and James Stolken (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power relay having an actuator with a microelectromechanical systems stator assembly and plunger assembly that moves along the central longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position, the plunger...