ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,327, issued on Oct. 6.

"Services and applications for a communications network" was invented by Dennis J. Dupray (Golden, Colo.) and Sheldon F. Goldberg (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location system is disclosed for commercial wireless telecommunication infrastructures. The system is an end-to-end solution having one or more location centers for outputting requested locations of commercially available handsets or mobile stations (MS) based on, e.g., CDMA, AMPS, NAMPS or TDMA communication standards, for processing both local MS location requests and more global MS location requests via, e.g., Internet communication betwe...