ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,011, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for in-house RF-based collaborative localization with automated data collection" was invented by Vutha Va (Plano, Texas), Wenxun Qiu (Allen, Texas) and Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for localization includes obtaining a request to localize an electronic device within an area, wherein the area includes a set of anchors. The method also includes transmitting a first message to the electronic device and a second message to the set of anchors. the first message includes a time for the e...