US Patent Issued to InvenSense on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus and system for tuning the resonant frequency of a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,801, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and system for tuning the resonant frequency of a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer" was invented by Stefon Shelton (Oakland, Calif.), Fabian Goericke (Berkeley, Calif.) and Benedict Costello (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The teachings of the present disclosure enable the manufacture of one or more piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) having a resonant frequency of a specific target value and/or substantially matched resonant frequencies. In accordance with the present disclosure, a flexible ...