ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,147, issued on June 16, was assigned to GOERTEK INC. (Weifang, China).

"Step counting method, step counting device, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Yanhua Tang (Weifang, China) and Mingming Wang (Weifang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a step counting method, a step counting device, and a computer readable storage medium. The step counting method includes: obtaining acceleration data, the acceleration data including effective peaks (S100); determining a time interval between a current effective peak and an effective peak obtained last time; when the time interval is greater than a preset inte...