Former Qualcomm MEMS executive forms startup
Batey, is listed as CEO of Invis. The company was founded in 2014 and is still without a website that could be found. Its business and technology plans are unknown for now but the experience of the two founders points to something MEMS-related.
Batey was chief operating officer of Iridigm Display Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.), which was sold to Qualcomm in 2004 for about $170 million. The Iridigm technology was the basis of the MEMS-based reflective interferometric display technology that Qualcomm called Mirasol. Batey served as president of Qualcomm MEMS Technologies from October 2004 to April 2011. Batey served another 18 months as an executive advisor to Qualcomm MEMS Technologies up until October 2012.
John Batey, CEO of Invis Technologies Corp.
Qualcomm announced it was dropping the Mirasol sunlight-readable displays in July 2012 and that it would try to license the technology out to other companies. The company had invested in a display manufacturing plant in Taiwan but it was reported at the time that Qualcomm had manufacturing problems with the technology that prevented good yields.
Petersen, who runs the KP-MEMS consultancy, is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of the MEMS industry. He has been a serial entrepreneur who has founded at least seven MEMS companies since 1982. This have included: NovaSensor, SiTime and Verreon, which was acquired by Qualcomm
Between 1975 and 1982 Petersen established a micromachining research group at IBM. By coincidence Batey spent six years as an IBM researcher (1983 to 1989) and six years as a research manager at IBM (1989 to 1995) after graduating from the University of Durham in the UK.
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