ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,568, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Rhythmic collection of positioning information" was invented by Christina Selle (Los Altos, Calif.), Bharath Narasimha Rao (San Mateo, Calif.), Saurabh Godha (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew J. Kerns (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam M. Driscoll (Atherton, Calif.), Gunes Dervisoglu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Archana Belvadi (Cupertino, Calif.), Jong-Ki Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Girish Joshi (Cupertino, Calif.), Halil Ibrahim Basturk (San Jose, Calif.), Seyyedeh Mahsa Mirzargar (Los Altos, Calif.), Jonathan M. Beard (San Jose, Calif.) and Richard Najarian (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the...