ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,755, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Device orientation initialization" was invented by Isaac T. Miller (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) and Mark G. Petovello (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system for device orientation initialization includes at least one processor configured to determine that the device is within or coupled to a vehicle in motion. The at least one processor is configured to employ, in response to the determining, a first position estimation model to estimate a position of the device, and detect occurrence of a predefined condition with respect ...