US Patent Issued to Unispectral on July 15 for "Device that includes a MEMS tunable filter and a method for operating the device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,147, issued on July 15, was assigned to Unispectral Ltd. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Device that includes a MEMS tunable filter and a method for operating the device" was invented by Peleg Levin (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel), Eliahu Chaim Ashkenazi (Jerusalem) and Ariel Raz (Kfar Vradim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides, among other aspects, a technique, employed in a system and method, for monitoring a state of a tunable optical filter, typically a MEMS tunable filter such as a Fabry-Perot filter. The technique utilizes application of an actuation voltage signal characterized by a first component configured...