ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,804, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.).
"System and method of determining real-time location" was invented by Eric J. Smith (Holland, Mich.) and Kyle Golsch (Pontiac, 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. The system and method may include communicating with a secondary portable device separate from the portable device, which may be considered a primary portable device. The secondary portable device may be not be configured to communicate with the object or unaware that i...