ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,628, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and terminal for communicating an estimate of the location of at least one radio endpoint to a connected object" was invented by Apostolos Kountouris (Chatillon, France) and Philippe Surbayrole (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating an estimate of the location of at least one radio terminal to a connected object. The method is implemented by a mobile terminal and includes: receiving, at a given time, via at least one received radio signal, at least one identifier of a radio terminal; obtaining at least one estim...