US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS, STMICROELECTRONICS on Sept. 2 for "Inertial navigation system capable of dead reckoning in vehicles" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,112, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS INC. (Coppell, Texas) and STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Inertial navigation system capable of dead reckoning in vehicles" was invented by Mahaveer Jain (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mahesh Chowdhary (San Jose, Calif.), Roberto Mura (Gallarate, Italy), Nicola Matteo Palella (Rivolta d'Adda, Italy) and Leonardo Colombo (Lecco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors are used in dead reckoning in conditions where Global Positioning System (GPS) signals or Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal...