ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,885, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Predicting performance of a localization-related device" was invented by Jose Araujo (Stockholm), Bryan Donyanavard (Stockholm), Ioannis Karagiannis (Kalamata, Greece) and Ananya Muddukrishna (Enskededalen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods performed by a predictor device for facilitating predictions related to localization and/or mapping performance of one or more devices of a device network. Such methods include detecting that a first localization-related device has joined the device network and obtaining a f...