US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 21 for "Position estimation based on environmental, non-uniform priors" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,010, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Position estimation based on environmental, non-uniform priors" was invented by Benjamin Tarlow (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Murray Jarvis (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for positioning. In an aspect, a positioning entity obtains a set of error distributions associated with a set of locations associated with an environment, wherein each error distribution of the set of error distributions indicates an expected error distribution of positioning measurements associated with a corresponding location of the set of loca...