US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on March 31 for "Combined acceleration sensor for high-G and low-G crash detection for an autonomous vehicle" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,772, issued on March 31, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Combined acceleration sensor for high-G and low-G crash detection for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Ulrich Michelfeit (Freiberg, Germany) and Rameez Ahmad (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acceleration sensor for a vehicle includes a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) high-G sensing element and low-G sensing element provided in a single MEMS housing in one embodiment. In another embodiment, the high-G sensor and the low-G sensor are integrated as a single MEMS low/high-G sensing element and in another embodiment, the high-G and low...