ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,118, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods for low energy movement detection in wireless communication devices" was invented by Jens Jansson (Eslov, Sweden) and Jagadeesh Arunachalam (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device (100) and method therein for movement detection are disclosed. The wireless communication device comprises at least a modem (110) and an operating system (120). The wireless communication device (100) estimates by the modem (110) a relative movement of the wireless communication device. If the estimated relative movement i...