Patent 10418965 was granted and assigned to Samsung on September, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A positioning method includes: emitting an interrogator signal from an electronic device; detecting, by the electronic device, a response signal that is generated and emitted by a sensor among a plurality of sensors, in response to the interrogator signal; and acquire location information about the sensor by identifying the sensor based on the detected response signal. The response signal is generated based on transduction of the interrogator signal.