ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,185, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"System and method of determining real-time location" was invented by Eric John Smith (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to determine location information with respect to a plurality of portable devices, with potentially a large number of portable devices such as 40 or more portable devices in proximity to the system. The system may connect to and locate each of the plurality of portable devices in proximity to the system. The location information may be determined with respect ...