US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 27 for "Methods of controlling location devices in a flight mode" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,095, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods of controlling location devices in a flight mode" was invented by Vieri Vanghi (Florence, Italy) and Jeffery Mark Torrance (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a tracking device to disable its transmitter based on determining whether the wireless device is within the vicinity or a threshold distance of an airport and/or based on information or measurements obtained from its modem receiver. In one aspect, a wireless device detects whether the wireless device is within a threshold distance of a target location or ...