Virtus Advanced Sensors uses technology that is based on over 25 years of research and development and a track record of successful commercialization. Virtus has one of the largest patent portfolios in the MEMS inertial sensing industry today with global coverage in the US, Japan, Europe and Asia. MEMS, which stand for micro-electro-mechanical systems, use processing techniques similar to circuit fabrication to build small, low cost electro-mechanical devices. These tiny devices can be used to sense motion and rotation. The advantage of MEMS technology is that it uses batch manufacting methods to realize low cost. Furthermore, devices can be fabricated on the micrometer-scale improving the performance.
Much of Virtus’ technology is based on sensing both accelerations and angular velocities using these MEMS manufacturing techniques. Additionally, Virtus’ technology edges out its competitors with its ability to do multi-axis sensing all within a single monolithic chip.