US Patent Issued to Menlo Microsystems, Research Foundation of SUNY on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods to protect a MEMS relay switch system" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,843, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Menlo Microsystems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) and Research Foundation of SUNY (Albany, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods to protect a MEMS relay switch system" was invented by Maja Harfman Todorovic (Northborough, Mass.) and Mohammed Agamy (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for protecting a MEMS relay switch system that controls electric current to a load includes a parallel resonant circuit in series with the MEMS relay switch system. The parallel resonant circuit includes an auxiliary switch in series with a capacitor configured to be pre-charged by a voltage source, and an induc...