ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,315, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"System and method for establishing real-time location" was invented by Raymond Michael Stitt (Ada, Mich.), Eric Smith (Holland, Mich.), Michael Stroud (Grand Haven, Mich.), Robert Hartman (Holland, Mich.), Karl Jager (Zeeland, Mich.) and Antonio Fominaya IV (Belmont, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system with a master device configured to determine location information in real-time with respect to a portable device. The master device may direct one or more monitor devices to monitor communications that occur over a primary communication link. Th...