ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,407, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Gyro sensor, electronic device, and vehicle" was invented by Teruo Takizawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gyro sensor includes a substrate, a fixed section fixed to the substrate, a driving section configured to perform driving along an X axis parallel to a principal plane of the substrate, a mass section coupled to the driving section and displaced along the X axis, a detecting section coupled to the mass section, capable of turning around a Z axis crossing the X axis, and capable of being displaced along the Z axis by a Coriolis force acting on ...