ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,371, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Computing device and method for generating or using a radio map that is based on fingerprint data having an obfuscated location" was invented by Henri Jaakko Julius Nurminen (Tampere, Finland), Marko Luomi (Lempaala, Finland), Pavel Ivanov (Tampere, Finland) and Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device, method and computer program product are provided to generate or update a radio map based on a plurality of fingerprint data that each respectively includes an obfuscated location reference. The rad...