ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,667, issued on July 7, was assigned to InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Compact drive and sense balanced multi-axis gyroscope" was invented by Damiano Milani (Fontanella, Italy), Lorenzo Bertini (Cascina, Italy), Giacomo Gafforelli (Casatenovo, Italy) and Luca Coronato (Corsico, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS gyroscope may include a drive system configured to impart a drive motion on a plurality of proof masses within a device plane of the MEMS gyroscope, including first and second in-plane proof masses that are driven in anti-phase and first second out-of-plane proof masses that are driven in anti-phase via the movem...