ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,374, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Sensor for parallel measurement of pressure and acceleration and use of the sensor in a vehicle battery" was invented by Daniel Kohler (Chemnitz, Germany), Vlad Buiculescu (Bucharest, Romania), Florian Brandl (Maxhutte-Haidhof, Germany), Dirk Meinhold (Dresden, Germany), Erhard Landgraf (Dresden, Germany), Rainer Markus Schaller (Saal a.d. Donau, Germany) and Markus Eckinger (Regenstauf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor for parallel measurement of pressure and acceleration of a vehicle, including a substrate, a sensor element dispos...