US Patent Issued to OMRON on June 17 for "Seismic sensor, earthquake detection method, and earthquake detection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,395, issued on June 17, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Seismic sensor, earthquake detection method, and earthquake detection program" was invented by Akinori Narumiya (Kyoto, Japan) and Hideyuki Urata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seismic sensor 10 comprises an acceleration acquisition unit 21, an acceleration waveform generation unit 22, a frequency sensing unit 24, and an earthquake determination unit 25. The acceleration acquisition unit 21 detects vibration and measures the acceleration of the vibration. The acceleration waveform generation unit 22 generates an acceleration waveform that indicates t...