ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,197, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Out-of-distribution detection and recognition of activities with inertial measurement unit sensor" was invented by Niall Lyons (Deanhill, Ireland), Avik Santra (Munich) and Ashutosh Pandey (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed describe methods, devices, and systems to perform out-of-distribution and recognition of activities using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor. A method may include receiving motion data by a device from a motion sensor. The method further includes generating image data comprising one...