US Patent Issued to TP-Link Systems on June 16 for "Access point positioning" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,695, issued on June 16, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Access point positioning" was invented by Tong Ding (Shanghai) and Jia Xin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method, an access point (AP) and a computer program product for determining location of the AP. A location information of a communication device wirelessly coupled to the AP may be received, the location information including a first location uncertainty with a first confidence level. A distance between the AP and the communication device may be determined based at least on a measured signal strength of a signal r...