ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,356, issued on June 30, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acceleration sensor" was invented by Youichiro Noguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Satoshi Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an acceleration sensor including a sensor device and a signal processing device sealed in a single package. The sensor device is configured to generate an acceleration signal, and the signal processing device is configured to process the acceleration signal. The signal processing device includes a signal input terminal, a first electrostatic protection element and a second electrostatic protection ele...