US Patent Issued to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES on Dec. 16 for "High-quality-factor flexural-vibration resonator for producing time references force sensors or gyrometers" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,222, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (Palaiseau, France).

"High-quality-factor flexural-vibration resonator for producing time references force sensors or gyrometers" was invented by Olivier Le Traon (Palaiseau, France), Raphael Levy (Palaiseau, France), Jean Guerard (Palaiseau, France) and Thomas Perrier (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonator is suitable for reducing or suppressing a force transmitted by a vibrating portion of the resonator to a support part. To this end, the vibrating portion includes two extensions which are each meander shaped such ...