ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,423, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for detecting a fall of a mobile user terminal" was invented by Jan Schnee (Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany) and Juergen Stegmaier (Wannweil, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method described and device to rapidly detect the accident-related removal of a mobile user terminal from a holder and to generate corresponding information which characterizes the fall or crash related to the accident. Rotation-rate sensor variables and acceleration variables of the mobile user terminal are acquired. A rotation or twisting of the mobile user t...