ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,441, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SiTime Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Microelectromechanical system oven-controlled oscillator" was invented by Carl Martin Arft (Danville, Calif.), Sassan Tabatabaei Zavareh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aaron Partridge (Lakewood, Wash.), Yushu Ma (Pittsburgh), Markus Rudolf Lutz (San Jose, Calif.), Li Ko Chiu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kamran Souri (Nootdorp, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device is provided with partitioning for thermal management. In one illustrative embodiment, the device may include: a heated section including a first die and a second d...