US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Localization of devices in a structure" (California, Massachusetts, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,374, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Localization of devices in a structure" was invented by Maurizio Bocca (Seattle), Amod Kant Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lakshmi Venkatraman (Los Altos, Calif.), Chaitanya Desai (Leander, Texas), Wontak Kim (Watertown, Mass.) and Paraskevas Argyropoulos (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for localizing smart devices in a structure. An image of a portion of at least one room of a structure may be rendered on a display of the mobile device. A point in the image may be determined where a nonlocalized device is d...