ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,765, issued on May 19, was assigned to Crowd Compass Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).

"Method and system for enabling location finding and message communication between a plurality of digital compass devices" was invented by Christopher James Stanley Dimoff (Ridgefield, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital compass device is provided that is capable of communicating with other digital compass devices without requiring use of cellular or Wi-Fi networks. The digital compass device gathers location data via GPS signals and uses radio signals to create a mesh network which is capable of relaying information across all nodes in the mesh net...