US Patent Issued to Radius Networks on April 7 for "GPS based location determination using accurately mapped polygonal areas" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,199, issued on April 7, was assigned to Radius Networks Inc. (Washington).

"GPS based location determination using accurately mapped polygonal areas" was invented by David Helms (Arlington, Va.), Marc Wallace (Arlington, Va.), Scott Yoder (Washington) and Christopher Sexton (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "GPS-based position reporting suffers from probabilistic error. The system and methods discussed herein reduce uncertainty by mapping a geometric figure that encompasses a GPS-based reported location and that bounds corresponding predetermined-as-more-probable true locations (MPTL's) among possible locations for the sourc...