ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,256, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for recognizing 2D movement track based on smart watch" was invented by Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen, China), Lin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Cong Li (Shenzhen, China) and Yandao Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for recognizing a two-dimensional (2D) movement track based on a smart watch is provided. The method comprises: acquiring accelerometer signal data and gyroscope signal data of the smart watch; estimating a tilt angle of the smart watch by using the accelerometer signal data and correcting the gyros...