US Patent Issued to DENSO International America, DENSO on June 17 for "System and method of determining real-time location" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,454, issued on June 17, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"System and method of determining real-time location" was invented by Eric John Smith (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining location information of a portable device relative to an object is provided. In one embodiment, a booking control system is provided for booking a resource or service associated with the object. The system and method may determine location information with respect to the portable device, and identify the user as checked-in or checked-out (e.g.,...