ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,512, issued on July 15.

"Multi-communication-interface system for fine locationing" was invented by Hendrik J. Volkerink (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.), Carl M. Skonberg (Long Beach, N.Y.) and Saurabh Sanghai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-communication-interface system methods implement fine locationing while conserving battery power. A first wireless-communication interface of a first multi-communication-interface tape node located at a first location in an area detect a first wireless signal from a second tape node at a first time. A first receiver of a second wireless-communica...