ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,464, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Localization using sensors that are transportable with a device" was invented by Jose Araujo (Stockholm), AmirHossein Taher Kouhestani (Solna, Sweden), Diego Gonzalez Morin (Galapagar, Spain) and Ioannis Karagiannis (Kalamata, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is configured for performing localization using a set of sensors that are transportable with the device. The device includes at least one processor operationally connected to the set of sensors, and at least one memory that stores program code. The program code configures...