US Patent Issued to KNOWLES ELECTRONICS on July 8 for "Dual-diaphragm MEMS transducers with high effective area" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,167, issued on July 8, was assigned to KNOWLES ELECTRONICS LLC (Itasca, Ill.).

"Dual-diaphragm MEMS transducers with high effective area" was invented by Shubham Shubham (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Jim Guo (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) diaphragm assembly comprises a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm, a geometric central region surrounding the geometric center of the diaphragm assembly, and a plurality of pillars connecting the first and second diaphragms, each of the plurality of pillars having a cross-sectional shape having a maximum radial dimension, A, and a maximum circ...