ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,913, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Backscatter localization" was invented by Ioannis Kimionis (Murray Hill, N.J.) and Michael Eggleston (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods and/or computer programs for backscatter localization of a tag using access point (AP) mode switching. The apparatus, may comprise means for: receiving distance information associated with at least two APs from a set of at least three APs. The distance information associated with each AP of the at least two APs may be determined based on: dynamically switching the role of...