ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,096, issued on May 13, was assigned to Soundskrit Inc. (Montreal).
"MEMS transducer" was invented by Stephane Leahy (Montreal), Wan-Thai Hsu (Saline, Mich.), Mohsin Nawaz (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Carly Stalder (Montreal), Sahil Gupta (Montreal) and Meysam Daeichin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) transducer includes a substrate and a pair of electrodes supported by the substrate. The pair of electrodes are configured as a bias electrode-sense electrode couple. A moveable electrode of the pair of electrodes is configured for vibrational movement in a first direction during excitation ...