ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,129, issued on July 14, was assigned to FOCAL POINT POSITIONING Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus that uses radio transmissions for surface mapping" was invented by Ramsey Michael Faragher (Cambridge, Great Britain), Robert Mark Crockett (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Peter James Duffett-Smith (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mapping a surface using signals transmitted from a single transmitter comprises: receiving signals transmitted from the single transmitter, where each signal has a different propagation path; determining a motion of an antenna of the receiver; generating ...