ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,605, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Barometer adaptive sampling by tight integration with other sensors and actuators" was invented by Boyan Bonev (Santa Clarita, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal electronic device is provided with a feature of intelligently adjusting a sampling rate of sensors, such as barometers. Before acquiring a measurement from the sensor, the device checks other hardware for conditions that could introduce noise into the measurement. If the device does not determine that excessive noise is likely after checking the other hardware, the device proceeds to acq...