US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Jan. 20 for "Proximate positioning for wireless connection of an electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,250, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Proximate positioning for wireless connection of an electronic device" was invented by Kota Nishida (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device wirelessly communicates with a terminal device by a wireless communicator, and includes a direction information acquisition unit and a processor. The direction information acquisition unit acquires, based on a beacon signal received by the wireless communicator from the terminal device, direction information related to a direction of the terminal device with respect to a reference position of the elec...