US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "Microelectromechanical membrane transducer with active damper" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,071, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Microelectromechanical membrane transducer with active damper" was invented by Domenico Giusti (Caponago, Italy) and Fabio Quaglia (Pizzale, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical membrane transducer includes: a supporting structure; a cavity formed in the supporting structure; a membrane coupled to the supporting structure so as to cover the cavity on one side; a cantilever damper, which is fixed to the supporting structure around the perimeter of the membrane and extends towards the inside of the membrane at a distance f...