ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,861, issued on July 7, was assigned to Wirepas Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Indoor localization solution for wireless communication networks" was invented by Tiago Troccoli (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an indoor localization system for a wireless communication network. The system comprises: one or more anchor devices, a central entity, and one or more tag devices. Transmission of signals by the one or more tag devices is controlled so that one signal is transmitted at a time on given radio resource, wherein the tag device transmitting said one signal is the tag device being localized. At least o...