US Patent Issued to Lufthansa Technik on April 8 for "Arrangement and method for addressing and locating equipment" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,853, issued on April 8, was assigned to Lufthansa Technik AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Arrangement and method for addressing and locating equipment" was invented by Andrew Muirhead (Norderstedt, Germany), Craig Depner (Washington, Wash.) and Cornelis Broers (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement provides addressing for a plurality of equipment. Each piece of the equipment is non-varyingly logically linked to a corresponding transceiver having a unique identifier and a plurality of transceiver antennae with non-identically oriented antenna lobes. Each corresponding transceiver is configured to transmit a signal hav...