ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,628, issued on April 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Evaluating IP location on a client device" was invented by Antonio Trapanese (Zurich), Ankit Gupta (Zurich) and Pawel Walczak (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology evaluate a client device query to identify an IP address-based estimated location of a mobile device. One or more candidate wireless stations are selected in accordance with the IP-based estimated location and a location-relevant response to the query is also generated in accordance with the IP-based location. This information is transmitted to the mobile...