ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,908, issued on June 3, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Location system congestion management" was invented by Ameya Ainapure (Atlanta), Bruce Andrew Carl Douglas (Fayetteville, Ga.), Peyton Riley (Suwanee, Ga.), Paul Dunn (Austell, Ga.) and Leonardo Matute (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Location-based systems, such as a Real-time Location System (RTLS), are used to locate and track assets such as equipment, people, etc. In order to accomplish high accuracy in determining locations of assets, the information sent to the location server from sensors should be accurate, relevant, sufficient, and t...