US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on May 12 for "Always-on shock and orientation detection" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,160, issued on May 12, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Always-on shock and orientation detection" was invented by Stefano Paolo Rivolta (Desio, Italy) and Piergiorgio Arrigoni (Domodossola, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to shock and orientation detection for an electronic device. The shock detection detects shock events, such as an accidental drop of the device, and the orientation detection detects the orientation of the device at the time of the detected shock event. The detected shock event and orientations are stored in non-volatile memory. The shock and or...