ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,250, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for positioning system with multiple radio access technologies" was invented by Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas) and Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for an indoor position localization of a target device is provided. A network comprising a server and a plurality of anchors is configured to fuse two radio technologies to estimate a location of the target device within an indoor facility. The method includes obtaining, via a first radio technology, a first candidate location of a tar...