US Patent Issued to Perfect Sense on March 18 for "Micro-location monitoring techniques" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,281, issued on March 18, was assigned to Perfect Sense Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Micro-location monitoring techniques" was invented by Bryan Morgan (Ramona, Calif.), Peter Dupris (Hollister, Calif.) and David Gang (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, methods for selecting a set of beacons that are to be monitored by a mobile device may be employed. Specifically, an optimal set of beacons to monitor may be provided to a mobile device depending on particular groups of beacons that are in proximity to the mobile device, the distance from the mobile device to each of the particular groups of beacons, and the m...