ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,448, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for using received signal strength information in a wireless system" was invented by Nagarjun Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.) and Neal Dante Castagnoli (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for processing and using signals transmitted by a device, e.g., a low cost beacon transmitter device, to facilitate making location determinations with regard to the transmitting device and/or making a decision of when or how to use location information generated based on received signals are described. In accor...