US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Electronic device with a motion sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,528, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device with a motion sensor" was invented by Luis R Deliz Centeno (Fremont, Calif.) and Devin W Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a head-mounted device, position and motion sensors may be included to determine the orientation of the head-mounted device. A motion sensor may experience error that accumulates over time, sometimes referred to as drift. To mitigate the effect of drift in a motion sensor, a reference orientation for the motion sensor may be reset when a qualifying motion is detected. The qualifying motion may be de...