US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Terminal device, magnetic anchor system, and position determination method" (Canadian, Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,889, issued on Oct. 27.

"Terminal device, magnetic anchor system, and position determination method" was invented by Takashi Nakayama (San Jose, Calif.), Gennadii Berkovich (Calgary, Canada), Yusuke Ariake (Tokyo), Shinji Higuma (Tokyo) and Chris Goodall (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] A terminal device that can perform positioning with high accuracy and at a low cost is provided.[Solution] A terminal device that is held by a terminal holding object includes a magnetic detection unit configured to detect magnetic field produced by a magnetic anchor made of magnet; and a position information acquisition unit c...