ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,146, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Crowd sourced privacy preserving access point mapping" was invented by Rachid Kachemir (Mountain View, Calif.), Krishna M. Behara (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ashok Kumar Harikumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christopher R. Purcell (Dublin, Calif.) and Welly Kasten (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or me...