US Patent Issued to THALES on June 17 for "Method for calibrating the difference in stiffness and/or quadrature of a vibrating inertial sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,080, issued on June 17, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Method for calibrating the difference in stiffness and/or quadrature of a vibrating inertial sensor" was invented by Nicolas Vercier (Valence, France) and Nicolas Martin (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating the stiffness mismatch triangleK or quadrature Kxy of a vibrating angular sensor includes a resonator extending about two axes x and y defining a sensor frame xy, comprising a vibrating proof mass comprising two parts configured to vibrate in phase opposition; and detection, excitation, quadrature compensation and stiffness ad...