US Patent Issued to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT on Oct. 7 for "Driving circuits for a piezoelectric microelectromechanical system mirror" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,960, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Driving circuits for a piezoelectric microelectromechanical system mirror" was invented by Tapio Pernu (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a Microelectromechanical System, MEMS, mirror apparatus, comprising a MEMS mirror and at least two piezo actuators, wherein the at least two piezo actuators are connected to each other and configured to control, or controlling, movement of the MEMS mirror and a single supply drive signal connected to each of the at least tw...