ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,848, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZEROKEY INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Hyper-accurate object-positioning system and method of self-localization using same" was invented by Matthew William Lowe (Calgary, Canada), Guojiang Gao (Calgary, Canada) and Chris Leskiw (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object-positioning system has a plurality of reference devices, one or more target devices at unknown positions and in communication with the plurality of reference devices via one or more wireless signal sets, at least one processing unit; and one or more signal-retransmission devices each in communication with at least a sub...