ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,655, issued on May 19, was assigned to Qwake Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Wireless beacon locator" was invented by John Davis Long II (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for navigating a user to a wireless beacon may include generating probable beacon locations, updating a prior probability for each of the probable beacon locations; receiving, by a wireless beacon locator, wireless beacon transmission data including a wireless beacon power reading, computing a distance and a predicted power level for each of the probable beacon locations, the predicted power level being a function of the distance as determined b...