ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,879, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Geolocation of wireless network users" was invented by Abhijeet Bhorkar (Fremont, Calif.), Baofeng Jiang (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Peter Wong (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes selecting a first machine learning model from a plurality of machine learning models that are trained for use in performing geolocation, wherein the first machine learning model is selected to perform geolocation within a first cell of a plurality of cells of a wireless network, acquiring event data from a plurality of wireless devices within the ...