ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,259, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"System and method for time synchronized fusion of multiple inertial sensors" was invented by Swapnil Sayan Saha (Fremont, Calif.), Denis Ciocca (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mahesh Chowdhary (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system includes a plurality of inertial measurement units (IMU) and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to receive sensor data from each of the inertial measurement units two alignment the timestamps of the sensor data, and to fuse the sensor data from the various IMUs. The control circu...