ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,289, issued on July 8, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Device positioning" was invented by Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark) and Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for apparatus positioning are provided. Solution comprises monitoring relative vertical movement of an apparatus utilising repeated readings of a barometric sensor; comparing monitored relative movement to a given threshold and determining whether the vertical position of the apparatus is changed or unchanged based on the comparison and controlling calculatio...