US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Nov. 4 for "MEMS device having a mechanical barrier structure" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,807, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"MEMS device having a mechanical barrier structure" was invented by Marc Fuldner (Neubiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS device comprises a housing with an interior volume, wherein the housing includes an access port to the interior volume; a MEMS sound transducer in the housing, and a mechanical barrier structure having a plate element that is fixed by elastic spacers to a carrier and overlaps the access port, and providing a ventilation path passing a boundary region of the plate element, wherein a clearance of the ventilation pat...