ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,257, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"D2D spatial understanding with electric magnets" was invented by Ke Han (Shanghai), Xiaodong Cai (Shanghai), Shouwei Sun (Shanghai), Hemin Han (Shanghai) and Lu Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a system including a plurality of components to be mounted to a first device in a preset layout and generate a magnetic field; a magnetometer integrated with a second device to detect the magnetic field to generate reading data associated with the magnetic field at the second device; and a processor configured to determine a ...