257 patents
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Robust method for gyroscope drive amplitude measurement
9 Jan 24
A MEMS gyroscope includes a driven mass that moves in response to a drive force.
Damiano Milani, Luca Coronato
Filed: 24 Feb 22
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Low stress overtravel stop
19 Dec 23
A microelectromechanical system device is described.
Matthew Julian Thompson, Robert Walmsley
Filed: 7 Jan 22
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Integrated piezoelectric microelectromechanical ultrasound transducer (PMUT) on integrated circuit (IC) for fingerprint sensing
19 Dec 23
Microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices and associated methods are disclosed.
Julius Ming-Lin Tsai, Mike Daneman, Sanjiv Kapoor
Filed: 18 Feb 22
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Drive and sense balanced, fully-coupled 3-axis gyroscope
12 Dec 23
The subject disclosure provides exemplary 3-axis (e.g., GX, GY, and GZ) linear and angular momentum balanced vibratory rate gyroscope architectures with fully-coupled sense modes.
Doruk Senkal, Robert Hennessy, Houri Johari-Galle, Joe Seeger
Filed: 3 Sep 21
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Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer with a patterned membrane structure
12 Dec 23
A piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) device includes a substrate having an opening therethrough and a membrane attached to the substrate over the opening.
Andre Guedes, Fabian Goericke, Stefon Shelton, Benedict Costello, David Horsley
Filed: 26 Feb 20
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Semiconductor package with built-in vibration isolation, thermal stability, and connector decoupling
5 Dec 23
A semiconductor package with design features, including an isolation structure for internal components and a flexible electrical connection, that minimizes errors due to environmental temperature, shock, and vibration effects.
Hamid Eslampour, Karthik Katingari, Adam Martin
Filed: 15 Mar 21
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Applying a positive feedback voltage to an electromechanical sensor utilizing a voltage-to-voltage converter to facilitate a reduction of charge flow in such sensor representing spring softening
5 Dec 23
Reducing a sensitivity of an electromechanical sensor is presented herein.
Joseph Seeger, Pradeep Shettigar
Filed: 23 Aug 22
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Split electrode design for a transducer
21 Nov 23
An ultrasonic transducer device comprises a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT), a transmitter with first and second differential outputs, and a controller.
Fabian T. Goericke, Richard J. Przybyla, Benjamin E. Eovino
Filed: 9 May 20
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Programmable ultrasonic transceiver
21 Nov 23
An ultrasonic transceiver system includes a transmitter block, a receiver block, a state machine, and a computing unit.
Richard Przybyla, Mitchell Kline, David Horsley
Filed: 27 Jun 22
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Minimizing a delay of a capacitance-to-voltage converter of a gyroscope by including such converter within a bandpass sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter of the gyroscope
21 Nov 23
Facilitating minimization of non-linearity effects of a delay of a capacitance-to-voltage (C2V) converter on an output of a gyroscope is presented herein.
Carlo Pinna, Sriraman Dakshinamurthy
Filed: 11 Aug 21
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Drive and sense balanced, semi-coupled 3-axis gyroscope
14 Nov 23
In a first aspect, the angular rate sensor comprises a substrate and a rotating structure anchored to the substrate.
Doruk Senkal, Robert Hennessy, Houri Johari-Galle, Joseph Seeger
Filed: 30 Dec 20
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Adaptive control of bias settings in a digital microphone
7 Nov 23
Technologies are provided for adaptive control of bias settings in a digital microphone.
Miroslav Svajda, Dusan Vecera, Igor Mucha
Filed: 7 May 21
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On-chip signal path with electrical and physical connection
31 Oct 23
An exemplary microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device comprises a plurality of stacked layers, including at least one layer that includes micromechanical components that respond to a force to be measured.
Peter George Hartwell
Filed: 8 Mar 22
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Reduced light reflection package
24 Oct 23
A MEMS sensor includes a through hole to allow communication with an external environment, such as to send or receive acoustic signals or to be exposed to the ambient environment.
Roberto Brioschi, Kazunori Hayata, JR-Cheng Yeh, Dinesh Kumar Solanki
Filed: 5 Oct 21
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Real-time isolation of self-test and linear acceleration signals
17 Oct 23
A MEMS accelerometer includes proof masses that move in-phase in response to a sensed linear acceleration.
Kevin Hughes, Giacomo Laghi, Vito Avantaggiati
Filed: 15 Mar 22
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Estimating a location of an object in close proximity to an ultrasonic transducer
3 Oct 23
A device comprises a processor coupled with an ultrasonic transducer coupled which is configured to emit an ultrasonic pulse and receive returned signals received after a ringdown period of the transducer and corresponding to the emitted ultrasonic pulse.
Florence Gris, Agnes Duval
Filed: 26 Dec 21
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Liquid detection in a sensor environment and remedial action thereof
26 Sep 23
A device includes a housing unit with an internal volume.
Calin Miclaus, Chung-Hsien Lin, Jye Ren, Tim Piessens, Pei-Wen Yen, Manish Sharma-Kulamarva
Filed: 12 Oct 22
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MEMS stress reduction structure embedded into package
19 Sep 23
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensor package includes a laminate that provides physical support and electrical connection to a MEMS sensor.
Roberto Brioschi, Benyamin Gholami Bazehhour, Milena Vujosevic, Kazunori Hayata
Filed: 10 Jun 21
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MEMS design with shear force rejection for reduced offset
19 Sep 23
A MEMS sensor includes a central anchoring region that maintains the relative position of an attached proof mass relative to sense electrodes in the presence of undesired forces and stresses.
Varun Subramaniam Kumar, Mrigank Sharma, Giacomo Laghi, Luca Coronato, Matthew Julian Thompson
Filed: 29 Apr 22
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Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscope sense frequency tracking
12 Sep 23
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes and related sense frequency tracking techniques are described.
Sriraman Dakshinamurthy, Carlo Pinna, Ronak Chetan Desai
Filed: 11 May 21