US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Sept. 23 for "Wireless handheld mobile device configured for location visualization of internet-of-things device" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,558, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Wireless handheld mobile device configured for location visualization of internet-of-things device" was invented by Wilfred I. Tucker (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for improving the ability to detect the location of a misplaced or lost Internet-of-Things (IoT) device. A 3D visualization of a physical environment including the misplaced IoT device and one or more physical objects is captured using a visualization sensor in a handheld mobile device. An estimation of the distance between the IoT device and at...