US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on June 10 for "Configurable microphone using internal clock changing" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,627, issued on June 10, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Configurable microphone using internal clock changing" was invented by Dietmar Straeussnigg (Villach, Austria) and Daniel Neumaier (Feldkirchen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) includes, in a first operational mode, converting an analog output of the MEMS into a first internal data stream and a first external data stream having a first sampling rate; transitioning from the first operational mode to a second operation mode without restarting the MEMS; and in the second operational ...