ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,760, issued on March 25, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Lid angle detection" was invented by Federico Rizzardini (Settimo Milanese, Italy) and Lorenzo Bracco (Chivasso, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a device and method for lid angle detection that is accurate even if the device is activated in an upright position. While the device is in a sleep state, first and second sensor units measure acceleration and angular velocity, and calculate orientations of respective lid components based on the acceleration and angular velocity measurements. Upon the devic...