US Patent Issued to Apple on May 13 for "Determining a significant user location for providing location-based services" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,190, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Determining a significant user location for providing location-based services" was invented by Michael P. Dal Santo (San Francisco), Lukas M. Marti (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ronald K. Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Lili Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and program products for providing services to a user by a mobile device based on the user's daily routine of movement. The mobile device determines whether a location cluster indicates a significant location for the user based on one or more hints that indicate an interest of the ...