ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,879, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for navigation model enhancement" was invented by Benjamin Lund (Escondido, Calif.), Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.), Edwin Chongwoo Park (San Diego), Daniel Baker (San Diego), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Soumya Das (San Diego) and Garrett Shriver (Santee, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may improve the performance of mobile/computer applications. Aspects presented herein may enable mobile/computer applications to differentiate entities that are associated with UEs or enti...