ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,979, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Low-power method and map data hierarchical segmentation load method for indoor positioning" was invented by Lynn Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Han Jun Bae (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a low power and low memory based indoor positioning method performed by a computing device including at least one processor. The method may include: determining an operation mode to be executed based on at least one of a motion of a target and movement of the target; loading a map segment related to a current ...