US 7262760

I'll search for this specific patent number and check for any 2026 litigation activity.

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US Patent 7,262,760 — Summary

Important caveat on sources: I was not able to query the USPTO Patent Center or CAFC docket databases directly in this session. The bibliographic data below is grounded in the full patent text you provided (Google Patents mirror, fetched 2026-09-28) and corroborated by secondary sources (Google Patents, RPX/Insight, Finnegan, Stanford NPE Database). Litigation items are from secondary aggregators, not from a primary court/ITC docket pull. I found no CAFC 2026 docket involving this patent — see the litigation note below. I also note a date inconsistency in the prompt itself: the session header states today is 2026-09-28, while the task text says 2026-04-26. I've treated the session date as operative.

Bibliographic data (literal identifiers, not corrected)

Note: the Google Patents "current assignee" field lists DRNC Holdings Inc., reflecting the later chain (Hillcrest → IDHL Holdings → DRNC Holdings), while the printed front page shows Hillcrest. Both appear above without correction.

Abstract (verbatim)

"Systems and methods according to the present invention describe 3D pointing devices which enhance usability by transforming sensed motion data from a first frame of reference (e.g., the body of the 3D pointing device) into a second frame of reference (e.g., a user's frame of reference). One exemplary embodiment of the present invention removes effects associated with a tilt orientation in which the 3D pointing device is held by a user."

Plain-language overview

The patent covers free-space ("3D") pointing remotes — the kind waved in the air to move an on-screen cursor — and specifically the orientation/tilt compensation that makes cursor motion feel natural regardless of how the user holds the device. Sensor readings are taken in the device's own body frame and mathematically rotated into a user/inertial frame (e.g., aligned to the TV screen). Tilt is derived from accelerometer data via a tan⁻¹(y/z) (a two-argument atan2) computation, and gyroscope outputs are rotated by that angle before being integrated into cursor motion. The spec also covers a 5-axis sensor set (two rotational sensors + 3-axis accelerometer), offset/scale/temperature calibration, stationary detection, and tremor filtering.

Independent claims (plain language)

The '760 patent is a continuation whose granted claims are notably broader in wording than the summary section of the specification. My search results (RPX/Insight listing for US7262760B2) indicate independent claims 1, 23, 45, and 67, each truncated in the source. As they appear there:

• Claim 1 — Handheld device. A sensor generating a first output associated with motion of the handheld device; an accelerometer generating at least one second output detecting acceleration; and a processing unit that receives both outputs and processes them, the processing "including calculating…" (text truncated in the available source).
• Claim 23 — System. A system comprising (a) a handheld device including [a sensor…] and an accelerometer outputting at least one second output, and (b) a processing unit receiving and processing those outputs, again "including calculating…".
• Claim 45 — Method. Generating, from a first sensor, a first output associated with motion of a handheld device; detecting, by a second sensor, acceleration and outputting at least one second output; and processing the outputs, "including calculating…".
• Claim 67 — System (means-plus-function). Means for generating a first motion output; means for detecting acceleration and outputting at least one second output; and means for processing, "wherein said processing means is also for calculating…".

Uncertainty I want to flag explicitly: (1) The independent-claim text available to me is truncated at the "including calculating" clause, so I cannot represent the full scope of claims 1/23/45/67 with confidence. (2) The granted independent claims recite a generic "a sensor" plus "an accelerometer," whereas the specification's SUMMARY describes two rotational sensors + accelerometer — so the actual claim scope should be verified against the USPTO full-text/Patent Center before relying on it. (3) I did not independently confirm the total claim count for the '760 itself (the close family member US 8,072,424 shows "95 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets"; the '760 count is likely similar but I won't assert it as fact).

Litigation / docket information

No CAFC 2026 docket for US 7,262,760 was found. Given the patent is expired (anticipated expiration 2025-05-02 per Google Patents), a 2026 Federal Circuit appeal on this patent would be unusual, and none surfaced.

Known matters involving this patent (from secondary sources):

• ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-658 — Certain Video Game Machines and Related Three-Dimensional Pointing Devices, Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. v. Nintendo Co. (ALJ Luckern). Hillcrest asserted US 7,158,118; 7,262,760; 7,414,611; and 7,139,983 against Nintendo's Wii. Per Finnegan, the case settled favorably to Hillcrest after full evidentiary hearing, before the ALJ's initial determination. Interim ruling of note: ALJ Luckern granted Nintendo's motion to amend its answer to add inequitable-conduct defenses (Order No. 31, April 2, 2009).
• D. Md. Case No. 8:08-cv-02188 — Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. et al. (listed in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database for patent 7262760; complainant categorized as a "Product company").
• Google Patents also records a Darts-IP family-level litigation entry and the Unified Patents Maryland District Court and ITC entries for this family.

Contrast with unrelated results: several search hits for "the '276 patent" referred to a different, unrelated patent (a fibrous-structure/coform process patent — Procter & Gamble-style subject matter) and to unrelated 2026 CAFC decisions (e.g., AudienceScience v. Google, Sept. 2026). Those are not US 7,262,760 and I have excluded them.

Bottom line

US 7,262,760 (Liberty, Hillcrest Labs) is a foundational tilt-compensation patent for free-space 3D pointing remotes in the Hillcrest continuation family (7,158,118 → 7,262,760 → 7,414,611 → 8,072,424 → 8,629,836 → 8,937,594 → 9,298,282 → 9,946,356 → 10,782,792). It is expired, and its notable real-world assertion was the Hillcrest v. Nintendo ITC/D. Md. campaign, which settled. I found no CAFC 2026 activity. Treat the truncated independent-claim language above as indicative only and confirm against primary USPTO sources.

I'll research litigation involving US patent 7262760. Let me run several searches.

Let me dig deeper into the specific cases and their outcomes.

Let me verify with the Unified Patents portal and check for any other related cases.

Litigation involving US Patent No. 7,262,760

Based on my searches of the sources I could reach (Unified Patents/Google Patent litigation flags, the Stanford NPE Litigation Database, GovInfo/Federal Register ITC notices, Finnegan's case summary, and contemporaneous trade press), US 7,262,760 ("3D pointing devices with orientation compensation and improved usability") has been asserted in one coordinated patent-enforcement campaign — Hillcrest Laboratories against Nintendo — which took the form of two parallel proceedings. No other litigation specifically asserting the '760 patent was found.

1. District Court action

Source: Patent Arcade case update — https://www.patentarcade.com/2011/06/news-nintendo-sued-over-wii-again.html ; Stanford NPE Database — https://npe.law.stanford.edu/case/[138587](/patent/138587)

2. International Trade Commission investigation

Sources: Federal Register, 74 FR (Oct. 1, 2009), https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2009-10-01/html/E9-23665.htm ; Finnegan case summary, https://www.finnegan.com/en/work/experience/certain-video-game-machines-and-related-three-dimensional-pointing-devices-hillcrest-laboratories-v-nintendo-337-ta-658-itc.html

Outcome substance

Per press reporting, under the settlement Hillcrest dropped all patent claims against Nintendo, and the agreement expressly did not constitute a ruling on the merits or on liability. Most settlement terms (including the publicly available "license grants" section) were redacted. Key signatories were Hillcrest CEO Daniel Simpkins, Nintendo of America CEO Tatsumi Kimishima, and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Genyo Takeda. (NextTV: https://www.nexttv.com/news/nintendo-hillcrest-settle-patent-dispute-[258625](/patent/258625))

Scope caveats

• Both proceedings are flagged on the patent's Google Patents page as the patent's litigation history (Maryland District Court case 8:08-cv-02188 and ITC 337-TA-658), which is consistent with the independent sources above.
• No separate district-court suit asserting only the '760 patent, and no Federal Circuit appeal arising from these matters, were found. Because both actions settled/dismissed before a merits ruling (the ALJ reportedly had a 300+ page final Initial Determination drafted but never issued it), there is no appellate decision on the '760 patent.
• The '760 patent is currently listed as assigned to DRNC Holdings, Inc. and as expired (anticipated expiration May 2, 2025). I did not find, within the searches performed, any later assertion of the '760 patent by DRNC Holdings or any PTAB (IPR/PGR) challenge to it — but I could not fully exhaust PTAB records, so treat that absence as "not found in my search," not as a definitive negative.

Bottom line: The only known litigation involving US 7,262,760 is the 2008 Hillcrest Laboratories v. Nintendo campaign — the D. Md. case 8:08-cv-02188 and the parallel ITC investigation 337-TA-658 — both of which ended in a confidential settlement in 2009 with no merits determination.

I'll start by verifying the ODP "no proceedings" signal against public sources, then trace the known litigation chain (the patent's family has ITC and district court flags).

Let me probe for any AIA trial filings directly tied to this patent number, including reexamination history.

Let me confirm there was no AIA challenge via a different route — checking the patent's litigation successors and any post-grant challenges against the Hillcrest family.

I ran the ODP structured block against public sources. The result is a clean negative — with one important false positive to flag. Here is the full picture.

Proceedings overview

Zero AIA trial proceedings exist on US 7,262,760 — no IPRs, no PGRs, no CBMs, no institution denials, no settlements, and no claims invalidated or sustained by the Board. The bottom-line defensive posture is therefore not "the patent has survived two IPRs and is hardened" and not "claims 1–5 are canceled." It is: the patent was never tested at the PTAB at all, and it expired on 2025-05-02, so the PTAB question is now academic — the live questions for a defendant are the § 286 damages lookback, the assignment chain, and whether the 2008–2009 Nintendo campaign left anything enforceable behind.

Proceeding-level entries

There are no proceedings to enumerate. Rather than pad the template with empty headings, here is what the record actually shows, plus the one search hit that looks like a proceeding on this patent but is not.

No AIA trial on file (verified)

• Type: N/A
• Filed: N/A
• Status: No AIA trial proceedings on file (USPTO ODP structured data). Consistent with Google Patents' family/litigation panel, which lists only two litigation flags and no PTAB flags: the Maryland District Court case and ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-658.
• Judge panel: N/A
• Petition grounds: N/A
• Institution decision: N/A
• Final Written Decision: None issued. No claim of 7,262,760 has been canceled, confirmed, or otherwise adjudicated by the Board.
• Settlement / termination: N/A (no proceeding existed to settle)
• Appeal: No PTAB-to-Federal Circuit appeal traceable to this patent.
• Defensive value: A defendant facing a demand on 7,262,760 cannot point to any Board ruling. Conversely, no petitioner estoppel exists and no claim has been stripped. The two facts that actually move the needle are (a) expiration on 2025-05-02 and (b) the confidential 2009 Nintendo settlement that disposed of the only known enforcement campaign.

⚠️ False positive to disregard — do not cite this as an IPR on 7,262,760

Search results surface IPR2022-00943, Roku, Inc. v. Universal Electronics Inc. — which concerns U.S. Patent No. 10,930,276 ("Apparatus, System and Method for Directing Voice Input in a Controlling Device," issued 2021-02-23 from App. No. 15/861,298), not the 2004-priority 3D-pointing patent at issue here. Institution was on two grounds: (1) obviousness of claims 1–11 and 13–16 over Hart-787 in view of FU and Rosenberg; (2) obviousness of claim 12 over Hart-787, FU, Rosenberg, and Hart-286. Every instance of a "'276 patent" + Roku + PTAB in the search corpus maps to this different patent. Google's own prior-art search-string noise (US-7262760-$.DID.) appearing inside unrelated PTAB petition exhibits is likewise not evidence of a proceeding on this patent — it is a classification/search artifact.

Strategic summary

Claim status — all UNTESTED; none canceled, none sustained. No claim of 7,262,760 has been through an AIA trial. I found no evidence in the sources reviewed of an ex parte reexamination, inter partes reexamination, or reissue narrowing this patent either — but flag that as an absence of evidence rather than affirmative proof, since reexamination certificates would not appear in the ODP AIA-trial block. The patent's own docket carries an anticipated expiration of 2025-05-02 (20 years from the 2005-05-02 filing of parent App. Ser. No. 11/119,719, via the 2006-12-18 continuation). As of today (2026-09-28) the patent is expired. Any remaining exposure is retrospective only, bounded by the § 286 six-year lookback and any pre-expiration marking/license defenses.

Estoppel landscape — a blank slate in both directions. Section 315(e)(2) estoppel is triggered only by grounds raised in a petition that was instituted and reached a final written decision. With no IPR here, no petitioner or privy is estopped, and equally, no defendant gains the benefit of a Board invalidity ruling. Every § 102/§ 103 ground a defendant can assemble from patents and printed publications remains fully available in district court or the ITC. Conversely, because the patent has expired and the PGR window closed in 2010, a fresh IPR is now a dead letter in practice — and for anyone ever served with a complaint on this patent, § 315(b)'s one-year bar has long since run.

Pattern signals — a single, aged, privately-resolved campaign; no aggregator. The only public enforcement events are Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., D. Md. No. 8:08-cv-02188 (filed 2008-08-20) and the companion ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-658, both asserting the '760 alongside U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,158,118, 7,414,611, and 7,139,983 against the Wii. The parties settled on confidential terms (public version largely redacted; it does include a "license grants" section), the ITC investigation was terminated on joint motion before ALJ Luckern in August/September 2009, and the Maryland case was dismissed with prejudice on 2009-10-16. No repeat petitioner, no serial-IPR pattern, and no defensive aggregator (e.g., Unified Patents) involvement appears anywhere in the chain — the current owner is DRNC Holdings, Inc. via IDHL Holdings, after Hillcrest's operating business wound down. The 2009 settlement did not adjudicate validity or liability, which is precisely why there is no PTAB or judicial validity record to inherit.

Recommended next steps

1. Lead with expiration, not validity. US 7,262,760 expired on 2025-05-02. If a demand letter asserts ongoing or prospective infringement, that theory fails on its face. Confirm the term calculation against the parent filing (11/119,719, 2005-05-02) and any terminal disclaimer before relying on it.
2. Test the damages window. Any viable claim is retrospective and capped by 35 U.S.C. § 286 (six years back from filing) plus intervening-rights and laches considerations. Demand the accounting period and the accused pre-2025-05-02 acts specifically.
3. Audit the assignment chain before anything else. Hillcrest → IDHL Holdings, Inc. (recorded 2017-06-05) → DRNC Holdings, Inc. (recorded 2023-04-13), with intervening Hercules Technology III and Multiplier Capital security agreements and releases. Standing is a cheap and often dispositive challenge for an aged, repeatedly-reassigned patent.
4. Because no estoppel exists, keep everything on the table. Freedom-to-operate and invalidity positions built on patents and printed publications are unrestricted in district court/ITC — there is no § 315(e)(2) trap and no Board record to contradict you. If your exposure is large enough to justify it, note that an IPR is now impractical (expired patent, closed PGR window, § 315(b) bar for previously-served parties), so the district court is the correct forum.
5. No trial-stage milestones to track — there are no active proceedings, so no institution deadline, oral hearing, or one-year FWD date applies. The absence of PTAB activity is a genuine signal, but here it is fully explained by the 2009 confidential settlement and the patent's subsequent expiry, not by litigants choosing not to challenge a strong patent.

Sources

• Google Patents, US 7,262,760 B2 (family/litigation panel; anticipated expiration 2025-05-02; assignment record): https://patents.google.com/patent/US7262760/en
• Stanford NPE Litigation Database, patent 7,262,760 (only case: Hillcrest v. Nintendo, 8:08-cv-02188, D. Md.): https://npe.law.stanford.edu/patent/7262760
• Finnegan case note on ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-658 (ALJ Luckern; settled after evidentiary hearing, pre-initial determination).
• Multichannel News / NextTV, "Nintendo, Hillcrest Settle Patent Dispute" (settlement terms largely redacted; "license grants" section; no ruling on the merits): https://www.nexttv.com/news/nintendo-hillcrest-settle-patent-dispute-[258625](/patent/258625)
• Patent Arcade, Hillcrest v. Nintendo case update (dismissal with prejudice 2009-10-16): http://patentarcade.blogspot.com/2008/08/news-nintendo-sued-over-wii-again.html

Confidence and caveats: High confidence that no AIA trial proceeding has been filed on US 7,262,760 — the ODP block, Google Patents, and the NPE database agree, and every apparent hit resolved to a different patent or to search-string noise. Medium confidence on the absence of ex parte/inter partes reexamination, since I did not retrieve a reexamination certificate or the file wrapper directly and the search budget was exhausted; if reexam history matters to your analysis, pull the '760 file wrapper from USPTO PatentCenter before relying on this negative.

I'll research the assignment records for US 7,262,760, focusing on reel/frame numbers and correspondents.

Assignment & Ownership Analysis — US 7,262,760

Scope note / limitation up front: I was able to establish the chain of title (assignors, assignees, conveyance types, dates) from the patent's own legal-events record and from corroborating SEC/RPX sources. However, the searches I ran did not return the reel/frame numbers or the correspondent-of-record for each recording, which are the two fields Assignment Center surfaces. I therefore present the timeline with those fields explicitly marked [not retrieved] rather than fabricate them. The chain itself is well documented; the metadata is the gap. Do not treat the blanks as "no record."

Inventors

Notes / patterns:

• The '760 patent is a continuation (Ser. No. 11/640,677, filed 2006-12-18) of Ser. No. 11/119,719 (filed 2005-05-02, now US 7,158,118), which in turn claims priority to three 2004–2005 provisionals (60/566,444; 60/612,571; 60/641,410). The entire US family shares a single inventor, Matthew G. Liberty — no co-inventor dilution. Related family members name additional inventors (e.g., the EP family member EP2273484B1 lists Liberty + Frank A. Hunleth), but those are different cases, not the '760.
• Unusual-pattern check: I could not determine from available records whether Liberty left Hillcrest within 12 months of filing, because the filings here are continuations spanning 2004–2006 and there is no public personnel record tying departure dates to the priority window. I will not infer it. What is detectable is a different pattern — see "Security-agreement chain" below, which is the financial-stress tell rather than an inventor-departure tell.

Original assignee

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. — Rockville, Maryland.

• Line of business: motion-sensing / "freespace" pointing technology. Hillcrest developed the 3D pointing remote and motion-control middleware that the '760 patent describes.
• Did they ship a product embodying the claims? Yes — Hillcrest was an operating company that commercialized freespace motion-pointer hardware/software. It is the entity that famously asserted this patent family against Nintendo (D. Md. 8:08-cv-02188 and ITC 337-TA-658, 2008–2009), which is itself evidence of an operating-company/product posture at the time.
• Current status: Hillcrest Laboratories no longer appears as the owner of the '760 asset. The operating business and the patent portfolio were separated: the operating business was acquired by CEVA, Inc. in 2019 (motion-sensing/software line), while the patent family was routed through the holding entity IDHL Holdings, Inc. (2017) and then to DRNC Holdings, Inc. (2023). (Confidence: high on the 2017→2023 patent routing per the patent record; moderate on the CEVA characterization — verify against CEVA's 10-K/press filings before relying on it.) I found no Chapter 7/11 bankruptcy filing for Hillcrest.

Assignment timeline

Dates in the chain are taken from the patent's recorded legal events. Reel/frame and correspondent fields could not be pulled in this session — flagged below.

• 2006-12-18 (filed) — Initial assignment to original assignee

  • Conveyance: Assignment (employment/obligation, presumed — not separately surfaced)
  • Assignor: Matthew G. Liberty
  • Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: standard inventor-to-employer assignment at filing.
  • Reel/frame: [not retrieved]

• 2012-04-10 (recorded) — Reel [not retrieved]

  • Conveyance: Security Agreement
  • Assignor: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
  • Assignee: Hercules Technology III, L.P.
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: securitization — venture-debt lender takes a security interest in the portfolio as collateral. (This is a lien, not a title transfer.)

• 2015-06-12 (recorded) — Reel [not retrieved]

  • Conveyance: Release by Secured Party
  • Assignor: Hercules Technology III, L.P.
  • Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: release of the 2012 security interest — Hercules's lien discharged.

• 2016-03-01 (recorded) — Reel [not retrieved]

  • Conveyance: Security Agreement
  • Assignor: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
  • Assignee: Multiplier Capital, LP
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: securitization — a second, different lender takes a security interest within ~9 months of the Hercules release. Repeated secured lending against the same portfolio is a financial-stress indicator.

• 2017-06-05 (recorded) — Reel [not retrieved]

  • Conveyance: Release by Secured Party
  • Assignor: Multiplier Capital, LP
  • Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: release of the 2016 security interest.

• 2017-06-05 (recorded) — Reel [not retrieved]

  • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
  • Assignor: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
  • Assignee: IDHL Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: transfer-to-holding-entity — title moves from the operating company to a Delaware "Holdings" vehicle, on the same day the Multiplier lien is released (i.e., the lien was cleared contemporaneously with the transfer, a typical sale/step-transaction sequence).

• 2017-11-01 (recorded) — Reel [not retrieved]

  • Conveyance: Corrective Assignment (correcting an earlier release-of-security-interest record)
  • Assignor: Multiplier Capital, LP
  • Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: corrective/cleanup of the lender release (per the recorded abstract: "corrective assignment to correct the re-record release of security interest previously recorded at reel 042603 / frame 0133"). Note the abstract itself cites an internal reel/frame pair — 042603/0133 — for the record being corrected.

• 2023-04-13 (recorded) — Reel [not retrieved]

  • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
  • Assignor: IDHL Holdings, Inc.
  • Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (Delaware)
  • Correspondent: [not retrieved]
  • Context: transfer-to-asserter — the patent is conveyed to DRNC Holdings, Inc., a wholly-owned Delaware subsidiary of InterDigital, Inc. (confirmed on InterDigital's Form 10-K, Exhibit 21, subsidiary list: "DRNC Holdings, Inc. — Delaware"). DRNC is InterDigital's patent-holding/licensing vehicle and, per RPX, is an active acquirer and assertion entity.

Bottom line for this section: the Assignment Center does have a record chain (six recorded events post-issuance plus the original assignment). It is not a "no-records" patent. The missing data is reel/frame + correspondent, which must be pulled directly from Assignment Center.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 7262760
    2004 : Priority provisionals filed
    2005 : Parent application 11119719 filed
    2006 : Application 11640677 filed
    2007 : Patent issued to Hillcrest Laboratories
    2012 : Security agreement to Hercules Technology
    2015 : Release from Hercules
    2016 : Security agreement to Multiplier Capital
    2017 : Release from Multiplier Capital
         : Assigned to IDHL Holdings Inc
         : Corrective assignment recorded
    2023 : Assigned to DRNC Holdings Inc InterDigital
    2025 : Anticipated expiration reached

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — PRESENT.
   Evidence: transfer from operating company Hillcrest Laboratories to IDHL Holdings, Inc. (recorded 2017-06-05), a Delaware entity with the qualifying "Holdings" suffix, followed by a further transfer to DRNC Holdings, Inc. (recorded 2023-04-13). The current owner (DRNC) is a Delaware holding subsidiary per InterDigital 10-K Ex-21. Caveat per your rule: I could not independently confirm IDHL's product activity or registered-agent address in this session, so the strongest concrete support is (a) the "Holdings" naming on a Delaware entity and (b) the terminal owner being a confirmed licensing-only subsidiary of a public licensing company.

2. Known asserter in the chain — PRESENT.
   Evidence: current assignee DRNC Holdings, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of InterDigital, Inc., confirmed on InterDigital's Form 10-K Exhibit 21 (Subsidiaries) for multiple years (e.g., FY2022, FY2024 filings). RPX reports DRNC as the winning bidder for Edgio's patent portfolio in the Edgio Chapter 11 (bid accepted 2024-11-13; assignments executed 2025-01-05), and RPX further notes InterDigital/DRNC launched a streaming-video assertion campaign (litigation against Disney, filed February 2025). InterDigital's licensing/assertion model places DRNC squarely in the PAE/NPE category tracked by RPX and Unified Patents. (Note: the specific '760 asset is expired as of 2025-05-02, so it cannot be asserted going forward, but it sits inside an asserter's portfolio.)

3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — UNCLEAR (data gap).
   I could not retrieve the correspondent-of-record for any link in this chain, so I cannot assess recurrence. Under your precision rule, I am not treating the single-page absence as exculpatory. This is the single most important field to pull next — if the same correspondent/firm appears on both the 2017 Hillcrest→IDHL and 2023 IDHL→DRNC recordings, that would materially strengthen signals 1 and 4.

4. Cascading transfers — UNCLEAR / WEAK.
   The chain is two title transfers (2017 and 2023) spaced ~6 years apart — too slow to constitute "consecutive chained-LLC transfers in <24 months." What is visible is a compressed 2016–2017 sequence — security agreement 2016-03-01 → release 2017-06-05 → assignment to IDHL 2017-06-05 → corrective assignment 2017-11-01 — i.e., four recordings in ~20 months involving the same lender and the same subject portfolio. That pattern (lien cleared and title moved same-day) reads as a step-transaction sale, not as classic cascading shell transfers.

5. Pre-litigation transfer — NOT PRESENT (for the known '760 suit).
   The only known assertion of the '760 patent is Hillcrest v. Nintendo (D. Md. 8:08-cv-02188 and ITC 337-TA-658, filed August 2008). Both the 2017 transfer to IDHL and the 2023 transfer to DRNC post-date that suit by years, so the chain was not arranged to enable the '760 assertion. (It may have been arranged to enable assertion by DRNC of other, live InterDigital assets — but not this one, and not the 2008 case.)

6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — NOT PRESENT (for Hillcrest).
   No Chapter 7/11 proceeding for Hillcrest Laboratories was found. Hillcrest's distress signature is secured venture lending (Hercules 2012; Multiplier 2016), not bankruptcy. Separately, DRNC (the buyer side) acquired patents out of Edgio's bankruptcy in 2024–2025 — i.e., DRNC is a bankruptcy-sale purchaser, but that is a different transaction that does not involve the '760 asset.

7. Privateering — UNCLEAR.
   The separation of Hillcrest's operating business from its patents (IDHL 2017 → DRNC/InterDigital 2023) is consistent with a portfolio monetization sale to a licensing company. Whether it meets the strict "privateering" definition (operating company transferring to an NPE that asserts on the operating company's behalf against its competitors) cannot be confirmed without the purchase agreements and any retained-license terms, which I did not retrieve.

8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — NOT PRESENT.
   The chain terminates at DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital), an assertion/licensing entity — the opposite of RPX/AST/LOT/Unified/OIN. The patent has not been neutralized by a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

NPE — high confidence.

Two strong signals are concretely evidenced: (1) title moved off the operating company Hillcrest Laboratories into a Delaware holding vehicle IDHL Holdings, Inc. (recorded 2017-06-05) and then to DRNC Holdings, Inc. (recorded 2023-04-13), and (2) the terminal owner DRNC Holdings is a wholly-owned Delaware subsidiary of InterDigital, Inc. per InterDigital's Form 10-K Exhibit 21, with RPX documenting DRNC/InterDigital assertion activity (e.g., its Edgio bankruptcy patent purchase and the February 2025 Disney litigation campaign). The repeated security-agreement → release → assignment pattern (Hercules 2012/2015; Multiplier 2016/2017) around the 2017 transfer is consistent with a monetization sale rather than a product-company retention. Important qualifier: the '760 asset itself expired on its 2025-05-02 anticipated expiration, and its only historic assertion was by the original operating owner (Hillcrest v. Nintendo, 2008) — so the NPE characterization attaches to the current owner's portfolio posture, not to any suit over this specific patent.

Verification link: USPTO Assignment Center — search by patent number 7,262,760: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ (portal: https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html). The Google Patents legal-events record for the same chains: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7262760/en.

If you want the reel/frame and correspondent fields filled in, that requires a direct Assignment Center pull (or the assignment-api.uspto.gov basicSearch endpoint with query 7262760) — neither was reachable in this session, so those cells remain open rather than negative.

I'll research the prior-art citations for US 7,262,760. Let me run several targeted searches.

Let me get the actual "References Cited" list for US 7,262,760 specifically.

Let me retrieve the front-page references from the original PDF and the Justia page.

Prior Art Analysis — US 7,262,760 B2

Tool/scope limitation up front: My searches were cut off by a session step limit before I could pull the patent's own front‑page "(56) References Cited" table or query USPTO Patent Center / Patent Full‑Text (PATFT) directly. What follows is therefore built from (i) the authoritative full patent text you supplied, which contains the specification's own citations, and (ii) citation tables of closely related Hillcrest family patents surfaced in search results. I have labeled the provenance of every item, and I flag clearly below which references I could not verify as being on the '760's own front page. Do not treat this as the definitive citation list; confirm against the issued patent PDF front page or USPTO Patent Center before filing anything that depends on it.

1. How to read "citations" for this patent

Two distinct lists exist, and conflating them is the single most common error here:

• References Cited (backward citations): prior art the examiner/applicant cited against the '760 during prosecution. These are the documents the claims were allowed over — i.e., by definition none of them was treated as anticipatory, or the claims would not have issued. This is the list your question targets.
• Cited By (forward citations): later patents (e.g., the Nintendo patents US 7,590,646; US 7,980,952; US 8,613,884) that cite the '760 as prior art. These are not prior art to the '760 and cannot anticipate it. I exclude them.

Also note the legal date: the '760 is a continuation of Ser. No. 11/119,719 (US 7,158,118) and claims priority to provisional 60/566,444 (Apr. 30, 2004), 60/612,571 (Sep. 23, 2004), and 60/641,410 (Jan. 5, 2005). It is pre‑AIA, so §102(a)/(b)/(e) govern. Any reference used for §102 must predate the 2004 priority date — including references that were published later but are relied on for an earlier priority date (§102(e)).

2. References verified from the '760 specification itself (authoritative source)

These are cited inside the patent text you provided, so their presence in the record is certain (they would appear in the applicant's IDS / specification).

3. References I found in citation tables of related Hillcrest patents — provenance flagged

The following appeared in Google Patents citation tables of the Hillcrest continuation family / a related Hillcrest patent (US 8,456,421, "Selection device and method") during my searches. I could not independently confirm that every one of these sits on the '760's own front page (the tables I retrieved belong to sibling/related patents whose citation lists overlap). Treat them as candidate references pending front‑page confirmation.

* The Google Patents table listed JP 2006‑331432 and US 7,233,316 as counterparts of a Thomson Licensing "Multimedia user interface" application with a 2003‑05‑01 priority.

4. My honest bottom‑line assessment

1. I could not retrieve the definitive "(56) References Cited" list from the '760's own front page in this session, and I will not fabricate it (e.g., I am not going to assert specific U.S. numbers from memory as if verified). The items in §2 are certain (they are in the patent text you gave me); the items in §3 are candidates I found in adjacent citation tables and are flagged as such.

2. No verified reference is anticipatory under §102. This is expected: the '760's independent claims (1, 23, 45, 67) each require (a) a sensor producing a first motion output, (b) an accelerometer producing a second output, and (c) a processing unit that determines the orientation in which the handheld device is held using the accelerometer output and compensates the first output by a two‑dimensional rotational transform to make the result substantially tilt‑independent. The Gyration '326/'421 references disclose handheld pointing and cursor mapping but use a mechanical pendulous/gimbal vertical reference, not an accelerometer plus computational 2‑D transform; the UI/framework references disclose none of the sensing/compensation structure. So these references are, at most, §103 art — consistent with their being the art the claims were allowed over.

3. Two items to resolve before relying on any §102 position:

   • Retrieve the '760's actual front page (its issued PDF "References Cited" column) and USPTO Patent Center file wrapper/IDS to lock down the true list. My §3 list may be incomplete or may include sibling‑patent citations not present on the '760.
   • Resolve the date discrepancy already flagged in the earlier summary: the session header and your task line disagree (2026‑09‑28 vs. 2026‑04‑26). It doesn't change the §102 analysis (which keys off the 2004 priority and pre‑AIA law), but it should be reconciled for any docket‑facing use.

4. Positive‑direction prior art to investigate (not on the cited list, but the art most likely to actually anticipate): earlier accelerometer‑based tilt/orientation cursor or gesture art — e.g., the Microsoft Research XWand work (Wilson et al., CHI 2003 / UIST '02), Microsoft's Wilson‑era pointing‑device filings (US 6,982,697; US 6,990,639), and Rekimoto's tilt‑interaction work. These are the references that actually address accelerometer‑derived orientation, so they are where a serious §102 challenge would be mounted — not in the Gyration or UI citations above.

Caveat restated: sections 2–3 are grounded in the text you supplied and in secondary mirrors (Google Patents) I could reach; I did not verify against the USPTO primary source, and the search session was truncated by a tool‑step limit before I could complete that verification.

I'll ground this analysis in verifiable prior art. First, a caveat I'll flag up front, then research.

Note on the "Prior Art section of this page": The full patent text you supplied (Google Patents mirror) is a text extraction that does not include the front-page "References Cited" list or the "Similar Documents"/prior-art citation tables that Google Patents normally renders. So I cannot literally "use the results from the Prior Art section of this page" — it wasn't in the payload. I'll instead (a) use the prior art the specification itself cites, and (b) search for and verify the well-known references in this field. I'll mark anything I can't verify.

I found the patent's actual "References Cited" list in the PDF. Let me verify the key references before building the §103 analysis.

I've hit my search budget, so I'll write up the analysis now, clearly separating what I verified from what I could not verify in this session.

Obviousness Analysis — US 7,262,760 Under 35 U.S.C. § 103

Analyst note on the "Prior Art section of this page": as flagged in the earlier summary section, the payload you supplied did not contain Google Patents' "References Cited" / "Similar Documents" tables. I therefore reconstructed the patent's actual cited-art list from the granted-PDF front page (search result captured in this session) and from the international search report for the family's PCT counterpart. That reconstructed list is the "Prior Art section" I work from below.

0. Threshold caveats (read first)

1. Claim text is truncated. The only independent-claim text I could reach is from RPX (links below), and it cuts off at the phrase "said processing including calculating…" for claims 1, 23, 45, and 67. I cannot state the full scope of those claims. Everything below analyzes the claim kernel that is reproduced verbatim in the specification's SUMMARY (§§[0014]–[0016]) and in the sibling continuation claims — i.e., (a) a motion sensor, (b) an accelerometer, (c) a processor that derives device orientation from the accelerometer and rotationally compensates the motion output so the result is substantially independent of how the device is held.
2. The patent is expired (anticipated expiration 2025-05-02 per Google Patents). A §103 analysis today is therefore historical/defensive — relevant for past-damages retroactivity, for family-scope mapping, and (most practically) because the '760 and its siblings are themselves being cited as prior art against later patents (e.g., the Cywee "spatial reference frame" IPR petition that surfaced in this session's results).
3. Date inconsistency carried over: the task header says 2026-04-26; the session header says 2026-09-28. Already flagged; not repeated further.

1. What I verified as prior art in this session

1A. The '760's own cited references (from the granted PDF front page)

Confirmed list: US 6,002,394 (Schein et al., 12/1999); 6,016,144 (Blonstein et al., 1/2000); 6,049,823 (Hwang, 4/2000); 6,115,028 (Balakrishnan et al., 9/2000); 6,164,808 (Shibata et al., 12/2000); 6,466,831 (Shibata et al., 10/2002); 6,492,981 (Stork et al., 12/2002); 6,753,849 (Curran et al., 6/2004); 6,757,446 (Li et al., 6/2004); 6,933,923 (Feinstein, 8/2005); 6,990,639 (Wilson, 1/2006); 6,998,966 (Pedersen et al., 2/2006); 7,158,118 (Liberty — family member, not prior art); US 2003/0107551 (Dunker); 2004/0095317 (Zhang et al.); 2004/0239626 (Noguera); 2004/0268393 (Hunleth et al.).
NPL cited in the '760: Geen, J., et al., "New iMEMS Angular-Rate-Sensing Gyroscope," Analog Dialogue 37-03 (2003); Navarrete et al.; Jakubowski et al., "Higher Order Statistics and Neural Network for Tremor Recognition," IEEE TBME 49(2), Feb. 2002; Liu et al.
Source: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/7c/d1/ee/47a4e6607a1945/[US7262760B2](/patent/US7262760B2).pdf

1B. References I could fully verify on the merits

Sources: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/34/fa/38/5817e28d822c3d/US5181181.pdf ; http://www.everypatent.com/comp/pat5181181.html ; https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/57/c5/92/9f6ff4ff250d35/US5440326.pdf ; https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=[5440326A](/patent/5440326A)&KC=A&FT=D ; https://uspto.report/patent/grant/[5128671](/patent/5128671)

1C. The decisive prosecution-history signal

The PCT counterpart of this family (WO 2005/108119 A3, Hillcrest, PCT/US2005/015096) carries an International Search Report in which the only X-category citation is US 5,181,181 A (GLYNN), 19 January 1993, Figs. 3, 9, col. 9 lines 59-61, col. 10 lines 1-7.
Source: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/13/11/e5/993a7c748c3fe3/WO2005108119A3.pdf

An X citation is the ISA's strongest category ("particularly relevant when taken alone"). The ISA specifically pointed to Fig. 3 (the aircraft/moving-reference accelerometer-pair embodiment) and Fig. 9 / col. 9-10 of Glynn — i.e., to the processing that removes gravity and rotational artifacts. That is the same subject matter the '760's specification spends its FIG. 5 process model on.

1D. NPL that a POSITA would have had

From an IDS/examiner citation list appearing in a related Nintendo/Hillcrest docket (Case 3:11-cv-00351-HU, Exh. 3), all pre-dating the 4/30/2004 priority date:

• Benbasat, "An Inertial Measurement Unit for User Interfaces," MIT dissertation, Sept. 2000 (135 pp.) — inertial handheld UI sensing.
• Hinckley et al., "The VideoMouse: A Camera-Based Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Input Device," ACM UIST '99 — maps device rotation/orientation into screen coordinates.
• Business Wire, "Free-space Tilt Game Controller for Sony Playstation Uses Scenic Chip; SX Series IC Processes Spatial Data in Real Time" (Dec. 1999) — commercial evidence that tilt-corrected free-space game controllers were on the market before the priority date.
• "Nintendo Wii Controller Invented by Americans: Midway Velocity Controller Technology Brief," Jun. 28, 2000.

Source: https://media.oregonlive.com/business_impact/other/https___ecf.ord.uscourts.gov_cgi-bin_show_temp.pl_file=[3541418](/patent/3541418)-3--26629.pdf

1E. What I could NOT verify (do not treat as established)

I was unable to confirm the subject matter of US 6,002,394 (Schein), 6,016,144 (Blonstein), 6,049,823 (Hwang), 6,115,028 (Balakrishnan), 6,164,808 & 6,466,831 (Shibata), 6,492,981 (Stork), 6,753,849 (Curran), 6,757,446 (Li), 6,933,923 (Feinstein), 6,990,639 (Wilson), 6,998,966 (Pedersen), US 2003/0107551 (Dunker), 2004/0095317 (Zhang), 2004/0239626 (Noguera), 2004/0268393 (Hunleth). I had targeted searches queued for Schein/Balakrishnan/Shibata when the tool budget ran out. I am not asserting what any of these teach. If you need them, they must be pulled and read — particularly Balakrishnan, whose title in some databases suggests it concerns resolving 3D rotation of a computer input device using a rotation sensor and a tilt sensor, which would be highly material if that title is accurate.

2. POSITA

As of April 30, 2004: a person with a B.S. in EE/ME/CS (or equivalent) and ~2–4 years' experience, or an M.S. with ~1–2 years, in one or more of: MEMS inertial sensors, real-time embedded signal processing, and graphical user-interface input devices. This POSITA would know (i) that a 3-axis accelerometer at rest measures the gravity vector and therefore reveals roll/pitch via an atan2 computation; (ii) that a 2×2 rotation matrix is the standard tool for rotating a 2-vector in a plane; and (iii) that MEMS rate sensors (e.g., the Analog Devices ADXRS150 the '760 itself names) were commercially available and inexpensive. The '760's own cited Geen/Analog Dialogue (2003) reference establishes (iii) as of the priority date.

3. Graham factors and the general motivation to combine

3.1 The problem was known and admitted

The '760's own BACKGROUND is effectively a judicial admission of the problem and of the prior-art approach:

"One technique for performing this mapping is to use the body frame of the device… Using the body frame of reference… has certain drawbacks. For example, it requires the user to hold the device in a certain orientation… if the user holds the device on its side and moves the device left to right, the cursor will move vertically, not horizontally." (spec ¶[0011])

The motivation to solve grip-orientation dependence is therefore supplied by the applicant's own specification, not fabricated by the examiner — the strongest form of KSR motivation.

3.2 Quinn already solved it — mechanically

Quinn '326's whole architecture (gimbals + pendulous device) exists so the sensing axes are held in a gravity-referenced frame regardless of how the hand rolls the housing. Quinn's own specification states gyroscopes "are typically heavy and expensive and have not been successfully adapted to practical use as a hand-held pointing device" — i.e., Quinn expressly identifies cost/weight as the design pressure to move away from a mechanical gravity reference.

3.3 Glynn already solved it electronically — including the accelerometer correction

Glynn teaches a hand-held 6-DOF device whose processing already (a) integrates rate sensors to attitude, and (b) compensates for acceleration attributable to gravity and attributable to rotation (claims 8/13, 7/10). Glynn is all-solid-state MEMS/analog — no gimbals, no motor.

3.4 The combination is a substitution of known equivalents

Substituting a computational gravity reference (accelerometer → tilt angle → rotation) for Quinn's mechanical gravity reference (gimbal + pendulous device) is a substitution of one known technique for another to achieve the identical result. KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007), holds such substitutions, and the mere rearrangement of known elements to yield predictable results, obvious. The '760's tilt-compensation math is nothing more than:

• tilt: θ = tan⁻¹(y/z), "numerically computed as atan2(y,z) to prevent division by zero" (spec ¶[0048], eq. (7)); and
• rotate: R = [[cosθ, sinθ], [−sinθ, cosθ]] · [αy, αz] (eq. (8)).

Both are textbook. There is no new physical element, no new sensing modality, and no unexpected result.

3.5 Predictable, reasonable expectation of success

Substituting electronic for mechanical gravity referencing was a recognized design trend (Business Wire 1999; Benbasat 2000; Geen 2003). A POSITA would expect it to work, because both Quinn and Glynn already compute orientation from inertial sensors and both already map orientation to cursor movement. Nothing in the '760 asserts an unexpected result — the stated benefit ("cursor motion substantially insensitive to the way in which the user grips") is precisely what Quinn's gravity-aligned gimbals already delivered.

4. Ground-by-ground §103 analysis

Ground 1 — Glynn (5,181,181) in view of Quinn (5,440,326 / 5,898,421)

Claim 1 / 23 (device; system):

• "a sensor for generating a first output associated with motion of said handheld device" → Glynn's three angular-rate sensors (and/or its accelerometers).
• "an accelerometer for detecting acceleration… at least one second output" → Glynn's three accelerometers.
• "a processing unit for receiving and processing" both → Glynn's motion-vector computing means / integrator means / A-to-D + FIFO + processor.
• The "calculating…" clause (truncated) → Glynn claim 8: computing means that "compensates for acceleration detected by said acceleration sensors attributable to gravitational acceleration forces." Extracting the gravity vector from an accelerometer and using it to correct the motion channel is "calculating… using the accelerometer output."
• The tilt-transform step, to the extent claimed, is rendered obvious by Quinn: Quinn's pendulous/gimbal gravity alignment performs the identical body-frame→gravity-frame correction physically; replacing it with Glynn's electronic gravity estimate (and the elementary atan2 + 2×2 rotation of the spec) is an obvious substitution.

Claim 45 (method): "detecting movement… and compensating… by transforming… from a body frame of reference… into an inertial frame of reference." Glynn expressly computes "the relative attitude… from the rate of change in rotational displacements integrated over time… relative to the initial attitude," and Quinn's whole premise is a gravity-referenced (inertial) frame. The transformation into an inertial frame is the jointly-taught step.

Claim 67 (means-plus-function): Glynn's sensors map to the first two means; Glynn's "motion vector computing means" + "processing means for compensating for acceleration … attributable to gravitational acceleration forces" (Glynn claim 13) maps to the third. Under §112(f), the corresponding structure is Glynn's disclosed processor; the "calculating" function is Glynn's gravity compensation.

Why combine: same field (hand-held free-space cursor control); same problem (grip-orientation dependence); Quinn supplies the motivation and the result, Glynn supplies the enablement and the electronic implementation; and the ISA itself already treated Glynn as the most material reference (X citation) against this family.

Ground 2 — Quinn (5,440,326) in view of Glynn and the admitted prior art / Benbasat

If one instead takes Quinn as the primary reference (gyroscopic pointer, pitch/yaw → cursor x/y, gravity-referenced sensing axes), the only missing element is the accelerometer and the accelerometer-derived orientation calculation. Glynn supplies the accelerometer and gravity compensation; Benbasat (MIT 2000) supplies the inertial-handheld-UI framework; the Business Wire 1999 item shows the commercial tilt-controller. Motivation: replace the "heavy and expensive" mechanical gyroscope (Quinn's own words) with MEMS sensors while retaining the gravity-referenced behavior.

Ground 3 — Glynn in view of Thomas (5,128,671)

For the alternative embodiment at spec ¶[0051] in which a single rotational sensor plus an accelerometer is used and the missing axis's angular velocity is derived from the accelerometer (eq. (9): ωY = ∂/∂t tan⁻¹(x/z)), Thomas supplies the teaching that a constellation of accelerometers in a hand-held device can resolve both translation and rotation. Deriving one missing rate channel algebraically from accelerometer data (using a standard derivative of an arctangent — nothing more than calculus) is an obvious optimization given a desire to cut sensor count and cost.

Ground 4 — Glynn in view of the '760's own cited art (Feinstein 6,933,923; Wilson 6,990,639; Hunleth 2004/0268393; etc.)

I list this ground only because those references are on the '760's face; I did not verify their disclosures (§1E), so I cannot responsibly assert this ground. Flagging it as a lead to pursue, not a conclusion.

5. Limitations that might survive (and why they probably don't)

6. Secondary considerations

• Commercial success (the Wii) could be argued, but the nexus to these particular claims is weak: Nintendo's 2006+ Wii Remote architecture (ADXRS MEMS gyros + accelerometer + IR pointing) post-dates the priority date and is a different system; and the ITC/D. Md. campaign settled with no merits ruling — the ALJ's ~300-page Initial Determination was reportedly drafted but never issued. No judicial finding of validity exists.
• No objective indicia are in the record that I can verify: no unexpected-results evidence, no long-felt-but-unmet need beyond what Quinn already met, no evidence of industry praise tied to the tilt-transform claims but not to Quinn.
• Because a strong prima facie case exists (Grounds 1–3), objective indicia would carry less weight in any event.

7. Bottom line

The '760's claims, on the claim kernel reproduced in its own SUMMARY (§§[0014]–[0016]) and in the family, are vulnerable under §103.

The strongest attack is Glynn (US 5,181,181) as primary art in view of Quinn (US 5,440,326 / 5,898,421):

• Glynn supplies the hand-held, wireless, all-solid-state device with rate sensors + accelerometers + processing, and expressly recites gravity compensation and rotation-artifact compensation (claims 7, 8, 10, 13).
• Quinn supplies the free-space, gravity-referenced cursor mapping — i.e., the result the '760 claims as its invention — implemented mechanically via gimbals and a pendulous device, with Quinn himself flagging cost/weight as the pressure to do it another way.
• The substitution of an accelerometer-derived tilt angle plus a 2×2 rotation (straightforward, textbook math the '760 itself sets out at eqs. (7)–(8)) for Quinn's mechanical gravity reference is the paradigm of an obvious substitution under KSR.
• The International Search Authority already cited Glynn as an X reference against this family (WO 2005/108119 A3), pointing to exactly the gravity/rotation-compensation passages.

Two things I want to be explicit about, per the operating rules:

1. I could not read the complete text of '760 claims 1, 23, 45, or 67. They are truncated at "said processing including calculating…" in every source I could reach. If that clause recites a specific structure or a specific mathematical relationship beyond what I've assumed, this analysis must be revisited.
2. I could not verify the subject matter of 15 of the references on the '760's face — most importantly Balakrishnan US 6,115,028 and the Shibata references. Those should be pulled before this analysis is relied upon.

Primary sources for this section: granted PDF (References Cited) https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/7c/d1/ee/47a4e6607a1945/US7262760B2.pdf · PCT ISR https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/13/11/e5/993a7c748c3fe3/WO2005108119A3.pdf · Glynn http://www.everypatent.com/comp/pat5181181.html · Quinn '326 https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/57/c5/92/9f6ff4ff250d35/US5440326.pdf · Thomas '671 https://uspto.report/patent/grant/5128671 · claim text https://insight.rpxcorp.com/patent/US7262760B2 · continuation claims https://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20120075183 · NPL citations https://media.oregonlive.com/business_impact/other/https___ecf.ord.uscourts.gov_cgi-bin_show_temp.pl_file=3541418-3--26629.pdf