US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "High-accuracy device positioning" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,623, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"High-accuracy device positioning" was invented by Alireza Famili (Arlington, Va.), Vladyslav Slyusar (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yun Ho Lee (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ego user equipment (UE) receives absolute position and relative distance information for m other UEs at a timestamp and a fingerprint location based on signal strength information between the UE and n different femtocells. The ego UE determines, using round trip time between the ego UE and the other UEs, first distances of the ego UE from each of the other UEs...