ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,288, issued on March 25, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich).

"Methods and systems for scheduling the transmission of localization signals and operating self-localizing apparatus" was invented by Luca Gherardi (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Raffaello D'Andrea (Wollerau, Switzerland), Markus Hehn (Zurich) and Markus Waibel (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Localization systems and methods for transmitting timestampable localization signals from anchors according to one or more transmission schedules. The transmission schedules may be generated and updated to achieve desired positioning performance. For example, one or more anchors ma...