US Patent Issued to HID Global on Aug. 4 for "Determining location using BLE signals" (Washington, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,386, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HID Global Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Determining location using BLE signals" was invented by Srinjay Paul (Albuquerque, N.M.), Robert Kjell Rowe (Poulsbo, Wash.), Mark Robinton (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Matthew Johnson (Parkland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for performing operations including: receiving a plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signals from a BLE beacon associated with an object over a period of time; generating a series of spatial patterns based on Received Signal Strength Indicators (RSSI) associated with the BLE signals; processing the se...