US Patent Issued to Asahi Kasei Microdevices on July 29 for "Estimation apparatus, estimation method and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,378, issued on July 29, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimation apparatus, estimation method and computer readable medium" was invented by Hidekazu Tsukiji (Tokyo), Norio Shibusawa (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Sasanuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation apparatus comprises: a collection unit configured to collect a plurality of pieces of update information used for updating reference information, which indicates measurement values in accordance with a position or an attitude of a second portion against a first portion which is measured by at least one magnetic sensor while changing at least one of ...