ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,494, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Techniques for high-precision locationing services in a mobile network" was invented by Yu Wang (Fairfax, Va.) and Zheng Fang (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for enabling the generation of high-precision location data on a user device using a cellular network infrastructure. In embodiments, such techniques may comprise maintaining, by a base station operating within a cellular network, high-precision location information representing geographical coordinates associated with the base station. The techniques may fur...