US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Self-positioning of electronic shelf label (ESL) devices through inter-ESL links" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,188, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Self-positioning of electronic shelf label (ESL) devices through inter-ESL links" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that support positioning of ESL devices. In a first aspect, a method includes: determining known positions of a first subset of ESL devices; receiving positioning measurements for each ESL device in a second subset of ESL devices; estimating a first position of each ESL device in the ...