US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Dec. 16 for "Piezoelectric resonant-based mechanical frequency combs" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,616, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Piezoelectric resonant-based mechanical frequency combs" was invented by Azadeh Ansari (Atlanta) and Mingyo Park (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for novel phononic frequency combs and related sensing techniques realized by a piezoelectric multimode or single-mode mechanical resonator based on parametric pumping. In one embodiment, a method comprises driving a piezoelectric mechanical resonator with an electrical AC signal, wherein the electrical AC signal causes motion of the piezoelectric mecha...