ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,628, issued on March 24, was assigned to Zartico (Salt Lake City).

"Geospatial anomaly filtering of geolocation data streams" was invented by Alan Mullenix (South Jordan, Utah) and Alexandra V. Pasi (South Jordan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for filtering anomalies from geospatial data has been developed. Geospatial data is typically collected from various user devices and aggregated by third party services. The method is agnostic of the cause of anomalies and generalized to effectively filter the geospatial data regardless of the type of anomalies in the data. The method involves determining a probabilit...