ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,595, issued on March 18, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. (Singapore) and STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Calibration method, corresponding circuit and apparatus" was invented by Marco Sautto (Zurich), Giona Fucili (Milan), Valerio Lo Muzzo (Singapore) and Kaufik Linggajaya (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a piezoelectric transducer configured to transduce mechanical vibrations into transduced electrical signals at a pair of sensor electrodes includes stimulating a resonant oscillation of the piezoelectric transducer by apply...