ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,222, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).
"Mitigating signal loss and directional ambiguity with dynamic location data sampling" was invented by Seejo K. Pylappan (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems read location data representing a current location of a mobile device. The location data for the mobile device is taken at a first sampling rate. Upon determining that the location data indicates that the mobile device is approaching a geographic area having a history of wireless communication loss, the mobile device is triggered to increase location data sa...