US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 15 for "Resonant sensor using MEMS resonator, and detection method by resonant sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,634, issued on April 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Resonant sensor using MEMS resonator, and detection method by resonant sensor" was invented by Kunihiko Nakamura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature sensor is a temperature sensor using a MEMS resonator, and includes: a MEMS resonator; a sweeper that sweeps a frequency of an excitation signal for a vibrator of the MEMS resonator in a predetermined sweep direction, and outputs the excitation signal swept to the MEMS resonator; a discontinuity point detector that obtains a vibration state information signa...