ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,188, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Motion tracking calibration for wearable device" was invented by Eran Chencinski (Giv'at Shmuel, Israel), Daniel Spivak (Ness Ziona, Israel) and Shoham Dekel (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device is provided, including an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a processing device. The processing device is configured to receive acceleration data from the accelerometer, receive orientation data from the gyroscope, and receive simulated magnetometer data from an offboard computing device. Based at least in part on the acce...