US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Dec. 9 for "Common mode rejection structures for mems devices" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,119, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Common mode rejection structures for mems devices" was invented by Mostafa Soliman (Waterloo, China) and Aaron A. Geisberger (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS device and method of forming the same includes paired masses suspended above a substrate includes linkages that couple pairs of masses to each other. Inner sense linkages couple interior edges of adjacent masses to each other. The inner sense linkages are configured to exhibit a first stiffness when the adjacent masses coupled to each inner sense linkage move out-of-phase relative to each ot...