ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,028, issued on July 1.

"Indoor and outdoor waypoints providing navigation and other information and method of use" was invented by Ehud Mendelson (Parkland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation system and method of use utilizes waypoints to guide people around urban environments, detecting a presence of a cellular phone and guides/navigates the user to destinations. The process can be an add-on to the cellular phone. The process focuses on the task of detecting and navigating even in situations in which Global Positioning Systems (GPS) cannot provide this information, such as when the person is indoors or in crowded urban ...