US Patent Issued to NXP on March 4 for "Near-field positioning device" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,434, issued on March 4, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Near-field positioning device" was invented by Liesbeth Gomme (Anderlecht, Belgium) and Anthony Kerselaers (Herselt, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses a near-field positioning device, including: an input interface configured to receive a set of body-parameters from a user; a controller configured to generate a set of recommended positions for a set of near-field wireless devices to be coupled to the user based on the body-parameters; and an output interface configured to output the recommended positions."

The patent was filed on Ju...