US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 25 for "Systems, methods, and devices for anonymous geospatial popularity evaluation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,605, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for anonymous geospatial popularity evaluation" was invented by Eric S Kinnear (San Jose, Calif.), Ozgur Ekici (Ottawa), Adam M Driscoll (Atherton, Calif.), Elliot S Briggs (Carmel, Calif.), Sean M Meiners (San Jose, Calif.), Brandon J Van Ryswyk (Los Altos, Calif.) and Siraj T Abidi (Sunnyvale, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, described herein, include solutions for anonymous geospatial evaluation via a wireless network. For example, a user equipment (UEs) may monitor a current location of UE for entry into a bound...