US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 17 for "Offline method to determine location of a vehicle using mobile phones" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,837, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Offline method to determine location of a vehicle using mobile phones" was invented by Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen Pathurudeen (Bangalore, India), Sashikumar Venkataraman (Bangalore, India), Meenakshi Sundaram (Madurai, India), Balasubramoniam Rajendran Suriyakala (Nagercoil, India) and Arun Kumar Nagarajan (Nagercoil, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for determining real-time location of a vehicle using a mobile device without GPS for the user travelling inside the vehicle. According to the embodiment of the present inv...