ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,227, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Device location finding" was invented by Benjamin A. Werner (San Jose, Calif.), Brent M. Ledvina (San Francisco) and Tunc Ertan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for a device locator application are described. In an embodiment, one or more inertial displacement measurement values may be received using the inertial sensor and received camera sensor data, a trajectory based on the one or more inertial displacement measurement values may be determined, a beacon signal from a target wireless device and determine at least one signal strength v...