US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 28 for "Micro-mechanical resonator having out-of-phase and out-of-plane flexural mode resonator portions" (Florida, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,298, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Micro-mechanical resonator having out-of-phase and out-of-plane flexural mode resonator portions" was invented by Hakhamanesh Mansoorzare (Orlando, Fla.), Ting-Ta Yen (San Jose, Calif.), Jeronimo Segovia-Fernandez (San Jose, Calif.) and Bichoy Bahr (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-mechanical resonator die includes: micro-mechanical resonator die layers; a cavity formed in at least one of the micro-mechanical resonator die layers; and a micro-mechanical resonator suspended in the cavity. The micro-mechanical resonator includes: a base; a firs...