ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,278, issued on March 11.
"Systems and methods for location based networking" was invented by Brian Eddelson (Garden City, N.Y.) and Jake Cameron (Farmingdale, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for location and degree of separation based networking is presented. A geographic location of a first user device is accessed. One or more contacts on the first user device are accessed. A predetermined radius around the geographic location for one or more second user devices is scanned. It is determined that the one or more second user devices within the predetermined radius include a contact that is on the user device. The system ...