ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,962, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Inertial sensor" was invented by Keitaro Ito (Nisshin, Japan), Shota Harada (Nisshin, Japan), Katsuaki Goto (Nisshin, Japan), Yuuki Inagaki (Nisshin, Japan), Hideaki Nishikawa (Nisshin, Japan), Takahiko Yoshida (Nisshin, Japan) and Yusuke Kawai (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inertial sensor includes a resonator, a mounting board, and an actuator. The resonator has a first drive mode and a second drive mode. The mounting board has a plurality of electrode port...