US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 6 for "Methods, apparatus and device-readable mediums for detecting changes in distance between wireless devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,966, issued on May 6, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods, apparatus and device-readable mediums for detecting changes in distance between wireless devices" was invented by Dennis Sundman (Sollentuna, Sweden), Satyam Dwivedi (Solna, Sweden) and Miguel Lopez (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method for detecting changes in distance between a first wireless device and a second wireless device is provided. The method comprises determining a variation of a parameter over time, based on measurements of first timing signals transmitted between the first and second wirele...