US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 7 for "Position location using electronic shelf label (ESL) fingerprints" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,860, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Position location using electronic shelf label (ESL) fingerprints" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that support indoor positioning of target devices. In a first aspect, a method includes: receiving, from a target device, signal measurements of at least a first subset of ESL nodes in a vicinity of the target device; identifying at least one ESL node of the ESL nodes which satisfy a criterion based...