US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on Sept. 16 for "Location determination system and location determination method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,878, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Location determination system and location determination method" was invented by Shinya Kita (Tokyo), Jithin Chathankandath (Tokyo), Mohit Luthra (Singapore) and Bharath Rathinam (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An E2EO module determines, in response to determination that a new element linked to an already installed element included in the communication system is to be added to the communication system, a location at which the new element is to be constructed based on new topology data including the new element and a current location of the already installed...