ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,291, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"In-plane and out-of-plane accelerometer" was invented by Ville-Pekka Rytkonen (Klaukkala, Finland), Matti Liukku (Helsinki) and Anssi Blomqvist (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical accelerometer is provided that includes one or more proof masses. The accelerometer also includes four sets of stator combs that form a set of four measurement capacitors together with rotor combs. Some rotor combs have a positive offset in a direction in the device plane in relation to stator, while others have a negative offset. Some...