ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,800, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Location measurement error detection" was invented by Ben Benfold (Oxford, Great Britain) and Pierre Fite-Georgel (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system determines an accuracy of a set containing a plurality of sensor location measurements of a client device and generating a set of sensor location measurements labeled with an associated accuracy estimate, is presented. The system receives a plurality of sensor location measurements of the client device generated by a location sensor. The system may determine the accuracy of a sensor lo...