ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,196, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GigFlex LLC.

"Method and apparatus for adaptive location determination" was invented by Larry S. Schwartz (Montgomery, Ohio) and Mitesh D. Desai (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Locations for mobile computers may be adaptively determined in a system which includes a server, a set of mobile computers, and an administrator computer. In such a system, the set of mobile computers may each be programmed with instructions operable to, when executed, transmit multiple forms of location information to the server. Additionally, the server may be programmed with a set of location determinatio...