ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,363, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inertial measurement unit" was invented by Fumikazu Otani (Matsumoto, Japan) and Taketo Chino (Hokuto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inertial measurement unit includes an angular velocity sensor and an acceleration sensor that output inertial information, a storage portion that stores a plurality of correction parameters related to a range of values of the inertial information, a parameter control portion that selects a selection correction parameter from the plurality of correction parameters, and a correction calculation portion that corrects the inertial...