US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "Microelectromechanical sensor device with active offset compensation" (Italian, Maltese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,952, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Microelectromechanical sensor device with active offset compensation" was invented by Gabriele Gattere (Castronno, Italy), Jean Marie Darmanin (Marsaxlokk, Malta) and Francesco Rizzini (Passirano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical sensor device having a sensing structure with: a substrate; an inertial mass, suspended above the substrate and elastically coupled to a rotor anchoring structure by elastic coupling elements, to perform at least one inertial movement due to a quantity to be sensed; first sensing electrodes,...