ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,005, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"MEMS gyrocompass" was invented by Lasse Aaltonen (Espoo, Finland) and Anssi Blomqvist (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gyrocompass device is provided for determining a heading relative to a surface of a rotating planetary body. The gyrocompass device includes one or more MEMS gyroscopes that are each fixed in an orientation on a substrate that is parallel to a first plane and that each provide three or more sense axes that lie within the first plane and are each offset from one another by an offset angle. Moreover, a heading determin...