US Patent Issued to RENESAS SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN ISRAEL on May 19 for "Positioning system based on distributed transmission and reception of wi-fi signals" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. RE50,894, issued on May 19, was assigned to RENESAS SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN ISRAEL LTD. (Raanana, Israel).

"Positioning system based on distributed transmission and reception of wi-fi signals" was invented by Moti Gabay (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a location of a target Wireless Local-Area Network (WLAN) device includes obtaining relative locations of three or more WLAN devices. Respective distances are measured between each of the WLAN devices and the target WLAN device. The location of the target WLAN device is estimated based on the locations of the WLAN devices and on the measured distances, whe...