ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,649, issued on April 21, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).
"Method and apparatus for adaptive compensation of object inclination" was invented by Mingda Zhou (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Chengchun Fang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Jahiz Ahmed (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Zachary Denny (South Lyon, Mich.) and Stone Maguire (Clarkston, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system includes a position sensor configured to generate sensor data indicating a position of an object on a surface, the object having a first component and a second component. The first component is moveable relative to the second component. An inclinatio...