Chinese tech giant Xiaomi patents earthquake monitoring mobile tech Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has published a patent for ‘Method and Equipment for Realizing Seismic Monitoring of Mobile Devices’ with publication number CN113406696A. The patent describes a system that is capable of reading/monitoring seismic activity from mobile equipment. This technology would be used in detecting earthquakes, reports GizmoChina. The ‘mobile device’ would transfer key data obtained to send it to an earthquake processing center. The system would also permit the underlying processor to identify and predict earthquake events based on multiple readings, the report added. Xiaomi earlier patented a foldable smartphone...