US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on June 10 for "Microelectromechanical device with out-of-plane stopper structure" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,628, issued on June 10, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Microelectromechanical device with out-of-plane stopper structure" was invented by Luca Guerinoni (Bergamo, Italy), Patrick Fedeli (Senago, Italy) and Luca Giuseppe Falorni (Limbiate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical device includes a substrate, a first structural layer, and a second structural layer of semiconductor material. A sensing mass extends in the first structural layer and is coupled to the substrate by first elastic connections to enable oscillation of the sensing mass in a sensing direction perpendicula...