US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I, New Jersey Institute of Technology on Oct. 21 for "Indoor place prediction" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,828, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, N.J.).

"Indoor place prediction" was invented by Manoop Talasila (Branchburg, N.J.), Qiong Wu (Bridgewater, N.J.), Wen-Ling Hsu (Bridgewater, N.J.), Xiaopeng Jiang (Kearny, N.J.), Cristian Borcea (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Pritam Sen (Harrison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a method includes collecting orientation data from a mobile device as a user of the mobile device moves within an indoor space, generating orientation estimates for the mobile device from the orientation data, generatin...