Chirp Microsystems, Inc.

Brief Description

Chirp Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures a line of extremely low power, ultrasonic 3D-sensing solutions for consumer electronics, smart homes, industrial automation, and much more. The company's ultrasonic 3D-sensing systems offer millimeter-accurate range information, based on machine learning and neural network algorithms and outperform infrared-based alternatives by every metric in real-world applications like consumer electronics, smart homes and industrial automation, enabling clients to avail the always-on sensing for wake-on-approach application for smart-home devices even when they are running on battery only.

Inventors

Andre Aires C. Guedes, Bernhard Boser, David Horsley, Richard Przybyla, Stefon Shelton

Company Founders

David Horsley (UC Berkeley BS, 1992, MS, 1994, PhD, 1998, mechanical engineering), Michelle Kiang (UC Berkeley MS, PhD, electrical engineering), UC Berkeley Professor Bernhard Boser, Richard Przybyla (UC Berkeley, PhD, 2013, electrical and electronic engineering), Stefon Shelton (Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center student researcher), André Guedes

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