US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 3 for "Anchor node location dissemination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,493, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Anchor node location dissemination" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for use in positioning a target mobile device, includes: transmitting, to the target mobile device from an apparatus, a message indicating a location offset relative to a reference location of a first anchor wireless-signal transmitter that corresponds to a first wireless-signal transmission, the location offset corresponding to a particular second anchor wireless-signal transmitter of a plurality of second anchor...