US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 28 for "Methods and systems for localized geolocation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,050, issued on July 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for localized geolocation" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia) and Brett Dietsch (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To conserve energy associated with bi-directional communications with network devices (e.g., access point, router, long-range (LoRa) access point, edge device, etc.), and to limit data/information processing resources associated with such bi-directional communications, a user device (e.g., a data collection device, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, an end device, a low-power device, a sensor, ...