US Patent Issued to Sensirion on Aug. 26 for "Optical component, optoelectronic module and method of manufacture" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,340, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sensirion AG (Stafa, Switzerland).

"Optical component, optoelectronic module and method of manufacture" was invented by Frank Gutle (Stafa, Switzerland), Lukas Ruthemann (Stafa, Switzerland) and Marcel Mittelmueller (Stafa, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical component (11) can include a chip comprising a carrier substrate (13) made of a semiconductor material and a membrane (15) disposed on a planar membrane-carrying surface of the carrier substrate (13). The membrane (15) is formed integrally with the carrier substrate (13). A cavity (14) is formed in the carrier substrate (...