ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,541, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Sealed electronic module" was invented by Fabien Malacarne (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealed electronic module (1) including at least one actionable part (2), the module (1) including a case (2) having: a watertight compartment (4) containing a printed circuit board (5), the compartment (4) being formed by a housing (13) with a unique opening (20), the housing (13) including the printed circuit board (5), and a sealing element (6a, 6b) configured for closing tightly the unique opening (20) by being fixed to the housi...