US Patent Issued to Hoffmann-La Roche on Sept. 22 for "Beacon-based location detection" (Swiss, German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,848, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Beacon-based location detection" was invented by Christopher Hughes Chatham (San Francisco), Joerg Felix Hipp (Lorrach, Germany), Lito Kriara (Zurich), Michael Lindemann (Schopfheim, Germany), Florian Lipsmeier (Basel, Switzerland), David Nobbs (Basel, Switzerland) and David Alexander Slater (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining a location of an individual in a home, business, structure, or other finite amount of space using one or more beacons."

The patent was filed on June 29, 2023, under Applica...