ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,856, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Method and apparatus for determining locations of wireless cameras" was invented by Song Fang (Norman, Okla.), Yan He (Norman, Okla.) and Qiuye He (Norman, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for detecting and localizing a wireless camera in an environment suspected to contain the wireless camera. The method comprises: instructing a user to perform a predetermined motion in the environment, wherein the predetermined motion is detectable within a detection range of a motion sensor of the wireless camera; scanning...