US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Nov. 11 for "Position determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,026, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Position determination device" was invented by Noriyuki Yatabe (Hiroshima, Japan), Kohei Yamaguchi (Hiroshima, Japan) and Junichi Igawa (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position determination device includes: a communication unit including communication devices to perform wireless communication with a mobile terminal 1, the communication devices to repeatedly perform UWB communication for detecting a distance measurement value Vr, at least one of the communication devices being configured to repeatedly perform BLE communication for receiv...