ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,298, issued on March 31, was assigned to Vodafone Group Services Ltd. (Newbury, Great Britain).

"Method of estimating a geographic location of a mobile device" was invented by Jindong Hou (Newbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a geographic location of a mobile device configured to communicate using a telecommunications network comprising a plurality of cells is provided. The method comprises obtaining one or more data records from the mobile device, wherein each data record comprises a plurality of signal measurements and respective cell identifiers, wherein each signal measurement relates to a...