US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on July 15 for "Piezoelectric microelectromechanical system microphone sensitivity improvement by anchor engineering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,782, issued on July 15, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Piezoelectric microelectromechanical system microphone sensitivity improvement by anchor engineering" was invented by Guofeng Chen (Fremont, Calif.) and Yu Hui (Merced, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric microelectromechanical system microphone comprises a support substrate, a piezoelectric element configured to deform and generate an electrical potential responsive to impingement of sound waves on the piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric element attached to the support substrate about a portion of a perimeter of the piezoelectri...