ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,520, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Electronic device for determining locations of external devices and operation method for same" was invented by Adam Sienkiewicz (Warsaw, Poland) and Aleksander Losiewicz (Warsaw, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by an electronic device, of determining a location of an external device includes: receiving a trigger signal, which is output at a first location; receiving, after the trigger signal is received, a first chirp signal transmitted from a first external device among at least one external device present at a diff...