ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,019, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Japan).

"Realizing enterprise-grade localization using WiFi 802.11mc fine tune measurement" was invented by Ramanujan Sheshadri (Jersey City, N.J.), Karthikeyan Sundaresan (Manalapan, N.J.) and Shivang Aggarwal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing viability of a WiFi fine tune measurement (FTM) based ranging protocol for enterprise-grade localization with heterogeneity across operational parameters is presented. The method includes enabling a plurality of access points to range with a plurality mobile devices handled by a plurality of users within an ...