US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 9 for "Locating and tracking in private next generation networks" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,382, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Locating and tracking in private next generation networks" was invented by Majdi Abdulqader (Moss Beach, Calif.), Marcos E. Carranza (Portland, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Cesar Martinez-Spessot (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system are described to provide indoor positioning and movement information using a private next generation (NG) network. A heatmap of pathloss vs distance from a remote radio unit (RRU) is provided from the UE and federated with other heatmaps from different UEs under similar condit...