US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 28 for "Method and apparatus for collaborative Wi-Fi localization" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,046, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for collaborative Wi-Fi localization" was invented by Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas) and Wenxun Qiu (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for residential position localization of a target device is provided. One or more wireless stations (STA) in a wireless network augment a location detection capability of an access point (AP). The method includes transmitting a request for localization information of a target device in a wireless communication network. The method also includes obtaining the lo...