ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,190, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Object positioning and tracking based on rfid and millimeter wave scanning" was invented by Pankaj Kumar Pandey (Charlotte, N.C.), Gourango Lal Biswas (Charlotte, N.C.), Shashidhar Ramamurthy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Kailash Kashyap Godawarthy (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are directed to identifying, locating, and track locations of assets and actors within a local environment. The system comprises a millimeter wave (mmWave) antenna circuit coupled to a beam steering antenna (BSA). The mmWave antenna circuit compris...