ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,684, issued on July 14, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Communication device combining communication function and positioning function and operation method thereof" was invented by Seung-Hyun Cho (Sejong-si, South Korea) and Joon Ki Lee (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device combining a communication function and a positioning function and an operation method thereof are provided. The communication device includes a photonics-based sub-terahertz (sub-THz) transmission unit configured to transmit a terahertz (THz) signal generated by ...