ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,655, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Determining location based on dynamic path loss exponent (PLE) and intercept (INT) estimation" was invented by Mohammad Zohoorian (San Francisco) and Robert D. Berry (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of deriving location information of a wireless device include deriving, in the continuous domain, a location of a wireless device and at least one time and location varying path loss function parameter. The coordinates and parameter are derived based on signal strength measurements made at the wireless device, with the measured si...