ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,996, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positioning terminal, information processing device, and positioning method" was invented by Yasuhisa Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoto Horiike (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning terminal includes: a reception unit which receives a first signal from a satellite and a second signal from a signal generator installed in a structure; and a control unit which, on the basis of a comparison result between a distance between a first positioning result acquired from the first signal and a second positioning result acq...