US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 1 for "Abstracting geographic location to a square block of pre-defined size" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,399, issued on April 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Abstracting geographic location to a square block of pre-defined size" was invented by Srinivasachakrapani Kotipalli (Sammamish, Wash.), Parul Manek (Redmond, Wash.), Konstantin E. Ryvkin (Bellevue, Wash.), Brad Rutkowski (Redmond, Wash.), Gregory Irving Thiel (Black Diamond, Wash.) and Ayla Kol (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client-side system detects a current location of a client device and a cloud interaction metric. The geographic area around the location of the client device is divided into grid sections. The client...