US Patent Issued to SNAP on June 17 for "Scheduling requests for location data" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,876, issued on June 17, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Scheduling requests for location data" was invented by Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland) and Lucas Rangit Magasweran (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media that schedules requests for location data of a mobile device, where the methods include selecting a first positioning system based on a power requirement, a latency requirement, and an accuracy requirement, and determining whether a first condition is satisfied for querying the first positioning system. The method further comprises in response to a determina...