ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,428, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Media-resistant pressure sensor for large pressure ranges" was invented by Rainer Markus Schaller (Saal a.d. Donau, Germany), Thomas Mueller (Lappersdorf, Germany) and Bernhard Winkler (Lappersdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a pressure sensor may comprise a housing, a flexible membrane which, together with the housing, forms a hermetically closed cavity, a sensor element arranged in the hermetically closed cavity, and a gaseous medium in the hermetically closed cavity. The sensor may detect a change in a physical ...