US Patent Issued to Dynamic Network Services on July 28 for "Methods, systems, and apparatus for geographic location using trace routes" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,810, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and apparatus for geographic location using trace routes" was invented by Earl Edward Zmijewski (West Lebanon, N.H.), Thomas Lee Tysinger (Norwich, N.H.) and Douglas Carl Madory (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional efforts for estimating the geographic location (geolocation) of devices associated with particular Internet Protocol (IP) addresses typically yield woefully inaccurate results. In many cases, the estimated IP geolocations are on the wrong continent. Embodiments of the present technology i...