ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,991, issued on March 24, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"UWB-based in-vehicle 3D localization of mobile devices" was invented by Zijun Han (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Jinzhu Chen (Troy, Mich.), Aaron Adler (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and John Sergakis (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for in-vehicle localization of a mobile device includes receiving, in real time, sensor data from a plurality of UWB sensors inside a vehicle. The plurality of UWB sensors includes a plurality of UWB anchors and a UWB tag, which is part of the mobile device. The metho...