ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,888, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Estimating runtime-frame velocity of wearable device" was invented by Evan Gregory Levine (Seattle) and Salim Sirtkaya (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable computing device, including a device body configured to be affixed to a body of a user. The wearable computing device may further include an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a processor. The processor may receive kinematic data from the IMU while the device body is affixed to the body of the user. The processor may perform a first coordinate transformation on the...