US Patent Issued to NEARFACES UG on Sept. 23 for "Method for determining proximity between mobile devices, method for managing a database, computer program product, and mobile device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,810, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEARFACES UG (Munich).

"Method for determining proximity between mobile devices, method for managing a database, computer program product, and mobile device" was invented by Paul Chaffey (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining proximity between a first mobile device (111) of a first user (121) and a second mobile device (112) of a second user (122) is provided. The method includes: searching, by the second mobile device (112), for short-range advertising broadcasts sent by mobile devices (111, 113) of other users (121, 123); receiving, by the second mobile device (112)...