ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,202, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nextivity Inc. (San Diego).

"In-building tracking system for distributed antenna systems" was invented by Michiel Petrus Lotter (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a position of a first responder in a building, where the first responder is using a radio, and using a distributed antenna system. Each antenna has a level detector to detect and measure a strength of an input signal from the radio of the first responder to produce a level signal, a time tagger to tag the detected input signal with a timing signal, and a communication module to transmit the l...