US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 27 for "Bit rate-adapting resoswitch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,147, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Bit rate-adapting resoswitch" was invented by Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Oakland, Calif.), Qiutong Jin (Albany, Calif.) and Kevin Zheng (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micromechanical resoswitch design and operation mode harnesses stored mechanical resonance energy to reduce its required switching energy and improve achievable bit rate in the example to 8 kbps, which is at least 12 times faster than without pre-energization. The use of stored energy is instrumental to achieving switching times 8 times faster than previo...