US Patent Issued to Link Labs on Nov. 3 for "Real-time location system using self-localizing nodes" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,941, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Link Labs Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Real-time location system using self-localizing nodes" was invented by Mark O. Bloechl (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a system and method for a real-time location system (RTLS) optimizing manner of establishing node location, and specifically, beacon location according to which positioning for a tag may be determined. To realize the optimization, beacons are arranged in "pods" and are led in their communications by a pod master beacon (MB) such that others of the pod beacons are slaves, i.e., slave beacons (SBs) to the MB. The commu...