US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 27 for "Methods and apparatus for generating user profile based on periodic location fixes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,957, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for generating user profile based on periodic location fixes" was invented by Chandrakant Mehta (Cupertino, Calif.) and Robert Lewis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to systems and methods for generating a user profile based on periodic location fixes. A cellular telephone or other mobile device captures location information via GPS or other capability. A location history can be generated from accumulated location fixes. The location history is then analyzed to detect the user's travel and dwell patterns. That inf...