ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,278, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Proximity enhanced location query" was invented by Tunc Ertan (San Francisco), Brent M. Ledvina (San Francisco) and Mads N. Paulin (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein enable proximity enhancements for a location query performed for a target wireless device. One embodiment provides for a method to determine a range and direction to a target wireless device using one our more wireless ranging operations when the wireless communication device is within a threshold range of the target wireless device, generate an augmente...