US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on June 10 for "Acoustic devices with improved sensitivity" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,559, issued on June 10, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic devices with improved sensitivity" was invented by Guofeng Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Jon Wurtz (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Rakesh Kumar (Singapore), You Qian (Singapore) and Humberto Campanella-Pineda (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic sensor (e.g., for use in a piezoelectric MEMS microphone) includes a substrate and a cantilever beam attached to the substrate. The cantilever beam has a proximal portion attached to the substrate and extending to a distal tip at a free end of the beam. The cantilevered beam has a width in plan...