US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on Feb. 24 for "Enabling determination of proximity of a mobile device based on detectable beacon devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,674, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Enabling determination of proximity of a mobile device based on detectable beacon devices" was invented by Magnus Hansson (Malmo, Sweden), Jan Elfstrom (Landskrona, Sweden) and Mikael Johansson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for enabling determination of proximity of a mobile device (2a, 2b) to a beacon device (3a). The method is performed by a proximity determiner (1) and comprises the steps of: determining a set of beacon devices (3a-e) being detectable from the mobile device: obtaining beacon measurements of one or two beacon ...