ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,945, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Localization services for wireless networks" was invented by Muhammed Faruk Gencel (Poway, Calif.), Ravi Ichapurapu (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Moulik Bhardwaj (Una, India), Uttam Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Basak Oyman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to privacy-based client device location estimation service. An actual location of a plurality of gateways deployed in the network coverage area is obfuscated into an attributed location of the subregion, where the network coverage area is divided into mult...