ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,916, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Positioning operation based on filtered map data" was invented by Gautam Nirula (Pleasanton, Calif.), Himanshu Shah (Milpitas, Calif.), William Morrison (San Francisco) and Hsiao Chien Liang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless system, a user device or a server obtains a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) position of the user device, a sensor-based trajectory of the user device, or both. The user device or the server filters map data indicating possible routes of the user device based on one or more criteria associated with the GNSS pos...