US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Long stroke MEMS actuator resilient to the pull-in and electronic system including the same" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,160, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Long stroke MEMS actuator resilient to the pull-in and electronic system including the same" was invented by Andrea Opreni (Terno d'Isola, Italy), Valentina Zega (Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy), Attilio Frangi (Milan), Gabriele Gattere (Castronno, Italy) and Manuel Riani (Como, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "MEMS actuator including: a substrate; a first and a second semiconductive layer; a frame including transverse regions formed by the second semiconductive layer, elongated parallel to a first direction and offset along a second direction...