US Patent Issued to DISH Wireless on March 3 for "Method for geolocating a communication tower using cell id and interpolation" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,350, issued on March 3, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Method for geolocating a communication tower using cell id and interpolation" was invented by Seth Buddingh (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the geolocation of a communication tower involves receiving a cell ID for a network cell from a data record and querying geolocation data sources for the tower's geolocations using the cell ID. In cases where the querying fails to retrieve the geolocations based on the cell ID, the method sets the geolocations to be between the previous cell ID geolocations and the following ce...