US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Proactive provision of positioning information based on user context" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,523, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Proactive provision of positioning information based on user context" was invented by Glenn Donald MacGougan (San Jose, Calif.), Isaac Thomas Miller (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Pejman Lotfali Kazemi (San Francisco), Richard B. Warren (Redwood City, Calif.) and William Joseph Bencze (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a system, a non-transitory machine-readable medium, and methods to provide location services. In an embodiment, a method provides receiving at least one indication that an electronic device i...