ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,624, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.rl. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Dynamic gravity vector estimation for memory constrained devices" 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: "A device includes a memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry, in operation: estimates an angular rate of change and determines a rotational versor based on the rotational data; and estimates a gravity vector based on the angular rate of change and the rotational versor. The processing circuitry generates a dynamic gr...