ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,597, issued on June 30, was assigned to RTR Technologies Inc. (Loveland, Colo.).

"Dual frequency ranging with calculated integer wavelength and phase difference" was invented by David Farrell (Loveland, Colo.) and Thomas Pattison (Kamuela, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments described herein provide ranging capabilities in RF-opaque environments, such as a jungle, utilizing transponders located on a property line. In particular, the embodiments described herein provide for determining a distance to a property line from a ranging device. The transponders are located on the property line and are separated from each ot...