US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Passive sensing mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,191, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Passive sensing mechanism" was invented by Priyanka Chowdary Chimmili (Milpitas, Calif.), Mohammad Rashidul Quddes (Fremont, Calif.), Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu (Mountain View, Calif.), Peruvemba Ranganath Sai Ananthanarayanan (Fremont, Calif.) and Naman B Barmecha (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining the tilt-state of a moveable surface using a batteryless mechanism. A tilt-sensing device may be coupled to a moveable surface, such that the tilt-sensing device changes orientation in a manner correspondi...