US Patent Issued to HERE Global on July 29 for "Private location verification and enhancement" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,878, issued on July 29, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Private location verification and enhancement" was invented by Oleksandr Kondrashov (Chicago), Onur Derin (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Giovanni Lanfranchi (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for privately verifying and enhancing location data are disclosed. A location-based services server receives a possible location of a mobile device. A location verification system determines a detected location of the mobile device. The location-based services server and location verification system communicate using a private set intersect...