ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,360, issued on March 18, was assigned to ORIGIN RESEARCH WIRELESS INC. (Rockville, Md.).

"Method, apparatus, and system for wireless proximity detection" was invented by Yuqian Hu (Greenbelt, Md.), Guozhen Zhu (Greenbelt, Md.), Beibei Wang (Clarksville, Md.), K. J. Ray Liu (Potomac, Md.) and Oscar Chi-Lim Au (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless sensing and proximity detection are described. For example, a described method comprises: transmitting, by a first wireless device, a wireless signal through a wireless multipath channel in a venue; receiving, by a second wireless device, ...