ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,250, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for detecting device drop" was invented by Wenjun Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Tianwei Xing (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xun Chen (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a drop event of an electronic device, may include: obtaining an angular velocity and a proper acceleration of the electronic device based on sensor data received from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor of the electronic device; obtaining centripetal acceleration of the electronic device based on the angular velocity, princi...