US Patent Issued to Google on June 3 for "Indoor localization using Bluetooth high-accuracy distance measurement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,913, issued on June 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Indoor localization using Bluetooth high-accuracy distance measurement" was invented by Li-Xuan Chuo (San Jose, Calif.), Qi Jiang (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel Jose Fernandes Barros (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and systems for indoor localization using Bluetooth high-accuracy distance measurement (HADM). In examples, the described systems and techniques perform a signal-strength scan to identify multiple anchor points and then pair, based on the signal-strength scan, the tagged device with a first anc...