ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,050, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Pressure sensors and method for forming a MEMS pressure sensor" was invented by Markus Eckinger (Regenstauf, Germany), Dirk Hammerschmidt (Finkenstein, Austria), Florian Brandl (Maxhutte-Haidhof, Germany) and Bernhard Winkler (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensor is provided. The pressure sensor includes a magnetic sensor element configured to generate a signal based on a magnetic field sensed by the magnetic sensor element; a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) structure including a membrane configured to move, depe...