ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,109, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Obsidian Sensors Inc. (San Diego).

"Charge transfer circuitry for MEMS devices" was invented by John Hong (San Diego), Tallis Chang (San Diego), Bing Wen (San Diego), Edward Chan (San Diego), Sean Andrews (San Diego) and Heesun Shin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices, methods of operating the MEMS device, and methods of manufacturing the MEMS device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the MEMS device includes a glass substrate; an electrode on the glass substrate; a hinge mechanically coupled to the electrode; a membrane mirror mechanically coup...