ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,232, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Mapping applications and location service profiles" was invented by Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Viersen, Germany) and Robin Thomas (Bad Nauheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for mapping applications and location service profiles. One method includes configuring location service profiles. Each location service profile includes at least one positioning method, at least one quality of service parameter, at least one mapping to at least one location service producer, at least one application service...