US Patent Issued to Clean Energy Labs on April 15 for "Membrane-based nano-electromechanical systems device and methods to make and use same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,637, issued on April 15, was assigned to Clean Energy Labs LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Membrane-based nano-electromechanical systems device and methods to make and use same" was invented by Joseph F. Pinkerton (Austin, Texas) and Alexander Joseph Pinkerton (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) sensor devices that utilize thin electrically conductive membranes, which can be, for example, graphene membranes. The NEMS devices can have a trough shape (such as a serpentine shape arrangement) of the electrically conductive membrane. The thin, electrically conductive membrane has membrane-structures di...