US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on July 22 for "Compact enhanced sensitivity temperature sensor using an encapsulated clamped-clamped MEMS beam resonator" (Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,580, issued on July 22, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Compact enhanced sensitivity temperature sensor using an encapsulated clamped-clamped MEMS beam resonator" was invented by Xuecui Zou (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Sally Ahmed (Giza, Egypt), Hossein Fariborzi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Nizar Jaber (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS temperature sensor including a clamped-clamped microbeam having a drive electrode on one side configured for applying an AC current, and a sense el...