ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,593, issued on April 14, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Auto-calibration method for inertial MEMS sensors" was invented by Alessandro Magnani (Milan), Matteo Quartiroli (Certosa di Pavia, Italy) and Alessandro Mecchia (Vimercate, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor module includes a pattern generator configured to generate a variable frequency self-test signal. The sensor module includes an inertial sensor including a self-test electrode configured to receive the frequency sweep self-test signal. The inertial sensor is configured to generate an analog sensor signal based on the self-test s...