ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,664, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LocationMind Inc. (Tokyo) and The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Indoor position authentication method, indoor position authentication system, and indoor position authentication apparatus" was invented by Koichi Chino (Tokyo), Naoki Kiritani (Tokyo), Wataru Ohira (Tokyo), Ranjit Saurav (Tokyo), Manandhar Dinesh (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Shibasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of wireless devices arranged indoors, and transmitting wireless signals for acquiring position information, are authenticated. A terminal device acquires position information on the basis of the wireless signa...