ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,569, issued on June 30, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of generating direction vector of particle, and apparatus and method for estimating indoor location based thereon" was invented by Myung In Ji (Daejeon, South Korea), Ju Il Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Su Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyeong Soo Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of generating direction vectors of particles. The method includes calculating, by a processor, a center of gravity of the particles on the basis of characteristic values of one or more...