ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,072, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Compact microelectromechanical angular rate sensor" was invented by Luca Giuseppe Falorni (Limbiate, Italy), Paola Carulli (Milan), Patrick Fedeli (Senago, Italy) and Luca Guerinoni (Alzano Lombardo, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS angular rate sensor is presented with two pairs of suspended masses that are micromachined on a semiconductor layer. A first pair includes two masses opposite to and in mirror image of each other. The first pair of masses has driving structures to generate a mechanical oscillation in a linear direction. A ...