ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,710, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CEVA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Gyroscope and optical flow sensor scale calibration" was invented by Douglas Charles Carlson (Mountain View, Calif.), Bryan A. Cook (Silver Spring, Md.), Zhanlue Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yun Li (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating a scale factor for a gyroscope can include detecting, by a gyroscope, a physical motion of a robot, detecting, by an optical flow (OF) sensor (and/or camera), one or more image signals including information; and deriving estimates of sensor calibration parameters based o...