ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,102, issued on May 13, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Membrane support for dual backplate transducers" was invented by Wolfgang Klein (Zorneding, Germany), Evangelos Angelopoulos (Munich), Stefan Barzen (Munich), Marc Fueldner (Neubiberg, Germany), Stefan GeiBler (Regensburg, Germany), Matthias Friedrich Herrmann (Munich), Ulrich Krumbein (Rosenheim, Germany), Konstantin Tkachuk (Unterhaching, Germany), Giordano Tosolini (Munich) and Juergen Wagner (Nittendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method for forming a microfabricated structure includes depositing a first membrane...