US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 17 for "Resetable mechanical tilt sensor" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,192, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Resetable mechanical tilt sensor" was invented by Ryan Kelsey Albright (Beaverton, Ore.), William Andrew Mecham (Elk Grove, Calif.), William Ryan Weese (Portland, Ore.), Benjamin Joseph Goska (Portland, Ore.), Aaron Richard Carkin (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Michael Scott Thompson (Wilsonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilt sensor includes a one-way rotational drive configured to translate rotational motion of an input shaft in a first rotational direction about a first axis of the input shaft and in a second rotational direction about the first axi...