US Patent Issued to Relay on Jan. 20 for "Local location determination on portable communication devices" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,577, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Relay Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Local location determination on portable communication devices" was invented by Dayne Batten (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method includes obtaining, from an odometry system, odometry data comprising distance data. The distance data includes data indicative of wireless signals at each respective distance. An initial path is generated using the odometry data. The initial path is displayed on a display device and adjustments to the initial path are received from a user. The initial path is changed based on the adjustments, and an updated ...