Self-answer here, as I spotted a big clue lurking in the bottom of my FM autogenerated sieve code under section
Code:
### 6. Sieve generated for calendar preferences
which led me to Bron's blog article on
automatic invitatation processing mentioning the Messaging Engine generated
X-ME-Cal-Method header. Now I use the code
Code:
if exists "X-ME-Cal-Method"
and it correctly identifies both Google and Microsoft (and one would hope Apple, etc etc) iMIP messages.