US Patent Issued to InvenSense on Nov. 3 for "Gyroscope drive loop with resonant amplitude sampling and PWM drive" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,131, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Gyroscope drive loop with resonant amplitude sampling and PWM drive" was invented by Federico Mazzarella (Binasco, Italy), Giacomo Petracca (Assago, Italy), Luca Collamati (Jesi, Italy), Andrea Di Ruzza (Locate di Triulzi, Italy), Carlo Pinna (Milan), Vadim Tsinker (Belmont, Calif.) and Carlo Mattaliano (Casteltermini, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS gyroscope includes a mixed analog and digital drive loop. A drive sense signal from a suspended spring-mass system is received by the drive loop, rectified, and compared to a reference signal. The resu...