US Patent Issued to Apple on March 4 for "Canopy coverage determination for improved wireless connectivity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,050, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Canopy coverage determination for improved wireless connectivity" was invented by Dhruv Khati (San Jose, Calif.), Shiva Krishna Narra (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna Myneni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anjaneyulu Maganti (San Jose, Calif.) and Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein include capturing images via cameras or light sensors of a mobile communication device, processing the image to determine obstructed (e.g., by foliage) portions and unobstructed (e.g., open sky) portions of the images, and gene...