US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Piezoelectric mems device for producing a signal indicative of detection of an acoustic stimulus" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,782, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Piezoelectric mems device for producing a signal indicative of detection of an acoustic stimulus" was invented by Robert John Littrell (Belmont, Mass.), Ronald Gagnon (Boston) and Karl Grosh (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising: a sensor; and a first circuit configured to detect when an input stimulus to the sensor satisfies one or more detection criteria, and further configured to produce a signal upon detection that causes adjustment of performance of the device; and a second circuit for processing input following detection, wherein the second...