ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,566, issued on April 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Beamforming using multiple sensor data" was invented by Anshuman Ganguly (Cambridge, Mass.), Srivatsan Kandadai (Danville, Calif.), Trausti Thor Kristjansson (San Jose, Calif.) and Wontak Kim (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device capable of using data from multiple sensors to determine an estimated position/direction of a user with respect to the device. The device may use estimated position data, along with confidence data, that originated from a plurality of sensors to fuse the data to determine the user's estimated position and compreh...