US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Location as a service" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,622, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Location as a service" was invented by Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), James Simon Cho (Stateline, Nev.), Nicholas Kucharewski (San Jose, Calif.) and Vincent Knowles Jones (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may transmit an indication of a media access control (MAC) address associated with an access point to a group of access points included in a network. The network node may receive single-s...