ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,175, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Coded anchors for simple localization" was invented by Nicholas Walker (Cambridge, Great Britain), Timothy Beard (Cambridge, Great Britain), Vignesh Raja Karuppiah Ramachandran (Mol, Belgium), Oscar Garcia Morchon (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Harry Michael Cronin (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes a transmitter (such as a gateway or base station, both indoors and outdoors) that actively creates multiple virtual anchors which are associated with certain known reflectors by means of a code, to allow low...