ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,612, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Location detection with GNSS and device range measurements" was invented by Eldad Perahia (Park City, Utah) and Vikram Raghu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for improving geolocation services, like GPS, using network device measurements. For example, a plurality of access points (APs) or other network devices may be implemented in a network environment and constructed with a GPS chip. Range measurements can be collected from these network devices and incorporated with the GPS locat...