US Patent Issued to VeriFone on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for tracking access to an area using ultra-wideband radio technology" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,640, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VeriFone Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for tracking access to an area using ultra-wideband radio technology" was invented by Ian Matthew Stoddart (Leeds, Great Britain) and Thomas Arthur Potter (Nevada City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment terminal computer program may track entry to, presence in, and exit from an area using ultrawideband (UWB) radio technology by: receiving, from an UWB radio, first information to determine a first distance between a UWB radio-enabled mobile electronic device and the UWB radio or a first position of the UWB radio-enabled mobile ...