US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 3 for "Aging compensation of a ferroelectric piezoelectric shock sensor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,191, issued on March 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Aging compensation of a ferroelectric piezoelectric shock sensor" was invented by Scott Robert Summerfelt (Garland, Texas) and Benjamin Stassen Cook (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving a signal from a piezoelectric device and receiving a measurement of a temperature of the piezoelectric device. The method further comprises reading a first parameter from a memory, in which the first parameter depends on the temperature and relates the signal to an acceleration value and reading a second parameter from the memory, in which ...