US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Capacitive linearization method applied to MEMS microphones systems" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,275, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Capacitive linearization method applied to MEMS microphones systems" was invented by Wilfried Florian (Villach, Austria), Niccolo De Milleri (Villach, Austria), Richard Gaggl (Poertschach am Woerthersee, Austria), Philipp Greiner (Graz, Austria) and Andreas Wiesbauer (Poertschach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device responsive to sound waves or vibrations having an output coupled to a first node; a programmable gain amplifier or source follower having an input coupled to a seco...