US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on Nov. 18 for "Enabling determination of proximity based on detectable proximity determiners" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,436, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Enabling determination of proximity based on detectable proximity determiners" was invented by Jan Elfstrom (Landskrona, Sweden), Mikael Johansson (Lund, Sweden) and Magnus Hansson (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for enabling determination of proximity of a mobile device (2a, 2b) to a selected proximity determiner (3a). The method comprises the steps of: determining a base set of proximity determiners (3b-e) whereby an enlarged set of proximity determiners is defined as the selected proximity determiner and the base set of proxim...