ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,370, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating device maps of wireless mesh networks" was invented by Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan (Fremont, Calif.), Eran Avidor (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Rafi Vitory (Herzliya, Israel), Ron Eyal (Herzliya, Israel) and Venkateswara Rao Manepalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for localizing devices connected to wireless networks, such as wireless mesh networks. In particular, a device connected to a wireless mesh network may maintain and share information, such as location data and iden...