ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,190, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Here Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Generation and use of a repository of mobile apparatus identifiers" was invented by Pavel Ivanov (Tampere, Finland), Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland), Marko Luomi (Tampere, Finland) and Henri Nurminen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus obtains a respective identifier communication from a respective mobile apparatus and extracts a respective network interface identifier from the respective identifier communication. The apparatus updates or generates a repository of mobile apparatus identifiers based on the respect...