ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,483, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TELECOM ITALIA S.P.A. (Milan).

"Method and system for determining indoor locations of user devices within a cellular network" was invented by Giorgio Ghinamo (Turin, Italy) and Davide Micheli (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining, based on event tracing associated with user devices connected to a cellular network, locations of the user devices in indoor environments (hereinafter, indoor locations), for example in order to determine quality of service maps of (e.g., urbanized) indoor environments of a geographic area covered by the cellular network."

The paten...