US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "User location determination based on object interactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,419, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User location determination based on object interactions" was invented by Eshan Verma (San Francisco), Angela Blechschmidt (San Jose, Calif.), Gefen Kohavi (San Carlos, Calif.) and Zhihao Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine a user location within a physical environment. For example, an example process may include obtaining an object relationship model representing positional relationships between objects of a set of objects within a physical environm...