US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 17 for "Robust step detection using low cost MEMS accelerometer in mobile applications, and processing methods, apparatus and systems" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,207, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Robust step detection using low cost MEMS accelerometer in mobile applications, and processing methods, apparatus and systems" was invented by Jayawardan Janardhanan (Karnataka, India), Sandeep Rao (Karnataka, India) and Goutam Dutta (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for pedestrian use includes an accelerometer having multiple electronic sensors; an electronic circuit operable to generate a signal stream representing magnitude of overall acceleration sensed by the accelerometer, and to electronically correlate a sliding window of the s...