ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,496, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Thinaer Inc. (Richardson, Texas).
"Method and apparatus for rapid location of data acquisition devices" was invented by Taylor Veith (Port Saint Lucie, Fla.), Paul M. Kavanaugh (Addison, Texas) and Richard R. Hegedus (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for locating a beacon in physical space, where the beacon communicates with at least one of a plurality of gateways in the physical space. First signals are transmitted between gateways located at respective physical locations. Gateway-to-gateway measurements of power related to the first signals are stored. The gateway-to...