US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA on March 3 for "Chirp-based over-the-air computation for privacy-preserving distributed localization" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,357, issued on March 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Chirp-based over-the-air computation for privacy-preserving distributed localization" was invented by Safi Shams M Hoque (Columbia, S.C.) and Alphan Sahin (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure deals with method and system for an over-the-air computation (OAC) approach for privacy-preserving localization in a sensor network. The disclosed approach relies on a voting-based distributed localization and the computation of the majority votes (MVs) with OAC. In this method, the anchor node (AN)'s votes encoding the potential loca...