ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,613, issued on June 30, was assigned to SenSen Networks Group Pty Ltd. (Victoria, Australia).

"Systems and methods for image-based location determination" was invented by Subhash Challa (Victoria, Australia), Nhat Vo (Victoria, Australia), Louis Quinn (Victoria, Australia) and Duc Vo (Victoria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to systems and methods of location determination based on images. Embodiments perform comparison of an input image to images in a library of reference background images using a background matching module to identify a matching image. Embodiments determine location associated with the ...