ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,586, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE (Creteil, France).

"UWB device localization" was invented by Eloi Desbazeilles (Creteil, France), Onur Oguz (Creteil, France), Kawtar Es-Saghir (Creteil, France) and Georges Djokic (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method implemented by a vehicle UWB system including at least two UWB sensors, with a view to determining a zone in which a UWB device is located among a predetermined set of zones, by applying a function dependent on a set of physical quantities. The function comprises one or more generalized linear models...