ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,408, issued on May 27, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Inc. (Coppell, Texas) and STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"MEMS gyroscope start-up process and circuit" was invented by Yamu Hu (Allen, Texas), Naren K Sahoo (Frisco, Texas), Pavan Nallamothu (Little Elm, Texas), Deyou Fang (Frisco, Texas), David McClure (Carrollton, Texas) and Marco Garbarino (Cusago, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At start-up of a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope, the drive signal is inhibited, and the phase, frequency and amplitude of any residual mechanical oscillation is sensed and processed to determine a process pa...