US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on March 4 for "Microelectromechanical mirror device with piezoelectric actuation and piezoresistive sensing having self-calibration properties" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,051, issued on March 4, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Microelectromechanical mirror device with piezoelectric actuation and piezoresistive sensing having self-calibration properties" was invented by Nicolo' Boni (Mountain View, Calif.), Gianluca Mendicino (Legnano, Italy), Enri Duqi (Milan), Roberto Carminati (Piancogno, Italy) and Massimiliano Merli (Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical mirror device has, in a die of semiconductor material: a fixed structure defining a cavity; a tiltable structure carrying a reflecting region elastically suspended above the cavity...