ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,322, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Timepiece and azimuth detection method" was invented by Ersin Altintas (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timepiece includes a pointer; an angular velocity sensor that is provided on the pointer and detects an angular velocity; and an azimuth detection processing unit that performs an azimuth detection process from a detection result of the angular velocity sensor."
The patent was filed on March 30, 2020, under Application No. 17/593,655.
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