ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,192, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Angular and linear movement detection and compensation for user equipment" was invented by Justin Patrick McGloin (Los Altos, Calif.), Victor Kulik (San Jose, Calif.) and Ana Londergan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may determine an angular motion using at least one gyroscope. The UE may adjust at least one measurement from at least one sensor that is associated with the UE and used to measure relative position, based at least in part on the angular motion. Additionally, in some implementations, the UE...