US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 24 for "Collaborative geolocation estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,031, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Collaborative geolocation estimation" was invented by Peiman Amini (Fremont, Calif.), Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.) and Vishal Desai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collaborative geolocation estimation may be provided. A plurality of access points (APs) may receive a geolocation estimation request from a controller. Next, one or more of the plurality of APs may receive signals from a plurality of satellites. The controller may then receive the signals from the plurality of APs. The controller may determine a collaborative geolo...