US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Nov. 25 for "Physical distancing tracking and notification" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,860, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Physical distancing tracking and notification" was invented by Edwin Iun (Ottawa), Dongsheng Yu (Ottawa), Ping Liu (Nepean, Canada) and Roland Smith (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node and a method for the network node determine a physical distancing metric (PDM) associated with at least one wireless device (WD). The network node includes processing circuitry configured to determine a location of each wireless device (WD) of a plurality of WDs and determine the PDM based at least in part on the location of each WD of...