ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,504, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sonitor Technologies AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Position determination system having a deconvolution decoder" was invented by Wilfred Edwin Booij (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an acoustic position determination system that includes a mobile communication device and at least one base transmitter unit. The mobile communication device is configured to transmit and receive acoustic signals. Due to relative movements between the mobile communication device and the base transmitter unit, frequencies of the received signals shift due to Doppler effect. The mob...