ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,944, issued on June 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Position estimating method, position estimating program, fixed wireless device, and mobile wireless device" was invented by Mei Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naganori Shirakata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a position estimation method for a stationary radio device, the method including: calculating a first similarity between a first fingerprint measured by the stationary radio device at a first timing and a second fingerprint measured by a mobile radio device at a second timing and transmitted from...