ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,472, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Electronic device including bag detection" was invented by Stefano Paolo Rivolta (Desio, Italy), Federico Rizzardini (Settimo Milanese, Italy), Lorenzo Bracco (Chivasso, Italy) and Roberto Mura (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a device configured to detect whether the device is in a bag or outside of the bag. The device determines whether the device is in or outside of the bag based on distance measurements generated by at least one proximity sensor and motion measurements generated by at least one mo...