US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for indoor positioning using ranging and sensing information" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,735, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for indoor positioning using ranging and sensing information" was invented by Rebal Al Jurdi (Allen, Texas), Hao Chen (Allen, Texas), Jianyuan Yu (Blacksburg, Va.), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Kyu-Hui Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indoor positioning method includes scanning for registered Wi-Fi nodes with known coordinates to generate a list of the registered Wi-Fi nodes. The method also includes performing a ranging operation by (i) selecting nodes to rang...