US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on July 15 for "Voting based proximity detection and ranging" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,377, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Voting based proximity detection and ranging" was invented by Sandeep Suresh (Bangalore, India), Abhishek Mathur (Bangalore, India) and Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Beema (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for proximity detection and ranging with neighboring devices is described here. The method includes identifying, by a processor of a first tag, a second tag from a group of tags within a predefined range of the first tag. The method further comprises initiating, by the processor, transmission of a packet to the second tag in the group...