ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,051, issued on March 31, was assigned to Lambda:4 Entwicklungen GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for determining a distance between two objects with the involvement of a third object" was invented by Ronne Reimann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a distance between two objects with the involvement of a third object. The first object can be an authorization means, such as a key fob or a mobile telephone. In the method, a first object transmits one or more first-object signals with different first-object frequencies and at least one third object transmits at least one third-object signal. A sec...