US Patent Issued to Snap on May 12 for "Barometer calibration in a location sharing system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,026, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Barometer calibration in a location sharing system" was invented by Eric Guillaume (Sannois, France) and Antoine Sinton (Courteuil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for calibrating a barometer of a client device. A server computer accesses historical data including location data, and atmospheric pressure data collected from a plurality of client devices over a period of time. An equation system defined by the historical data is solved. The equation system has a plurality of unknown parameters, the plurality of unknown parameter...