ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,189, issued on April 7, was assigned to APITRAK SAS (Meylan, France).

"Method for transferring information via a mobile beacon" was invented by Luc Antolinos (Meylan, France), Julien Bonnal (Meylan, France), Yoni Pomares (Meylan, France) and Frederic Martin (Meylan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting a piece of information from at least one first UWB radio tag by a mobile beacon including transmission and a receiver, includes transmitting a first energizing signal by a transmitter of the mobile beacon; receiving, by the mobile beacon by a UWB receiver, a first UWB signal of at least the first UWB radio ta...