ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,030, issued on March 24, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for determining geographic positions of a geographic location tracker" was invented by Stephane Coutant (Chatillon, France) and Jerome De Murcia (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a sequence of geographic location measurements of a tracer. The method includes: obtaining the sequence, ordered as a function of time of measurement; for an indexed measurement of the sequence, partitioning all the measurements in two ordered sets, the indexed measurement being either the last measurement of the first set or the fi...