US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "Displaying information based on wireless ranging" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,411, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displaying information based on wireless ranging" was invented by James H. Foster (Oxford, Great Britain) and Duncan R. Kerr (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device may locate a proximate object in an environment, such as an electronic device or a resource. During this communication technique, the wireless communication device may receive a transmission that includes an identifier associated with the object. The wireless communication device may determine a range and/or a direction of the object from the wireless communica...