US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for locating mobile devices by using photoacoustically-generated audio signals" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,171, issued on April 7, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for locating mobile devices by using photoacoustically-generated audio signals" was invented by Ian Davis (Delgany, Ireland), Akshat Agarwal (Clonmagaddan, Ireland), Nicholas Jeffers (Newtown Mount Kennedy, Ireland), Diarmuid O'Connell (Athy, Ireland) and Oliver Burns (Oldcastle, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus (101) for positioning mobile devices (105). The apparatus (101) comprises means for: obtaining a time of arrival of at least one audio signal (131) at...