ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,051, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Sensor arrangement" was invented by Athanasios Kollias (Munich), Marc Fueldner (Neubiberg, Germany), Matthias Friedrich Herrmann (Munich), Gunar Lorenz (Deisenhofen, Germany) and Andreas Wiesbauer (Portschach a.W., Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor arrangement includes a substrate having a through opening between a first and a second main surface region, a sound transducing portion at the first main surface region of the substrate and spanning the through opening in the substrate, and a pressure sensing portion at the first main surfac...