ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,707, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sarissa GmbH (Weingarten, Germany).
"Device for monitoring the position and/or attitude and/or movement of a tool" was invented by Volker Jauch (Baienfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for monitoring the position and/or location and/or movement of a tool to which an inertial sensor, such as a gyroscope sensor and/or an inertial sensor, is attached. A monitoring unit is provided in order to determine the position and/or location and/or movement of the tool on the basis of a specified starting situation using the detected sensor data. The device is ch...