ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,562, issued on May 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Device location based on machine learning classifications" was invented by Ebony James Charlton (London), Sumant Hanumante (Fremont, Calif.), Zhou Ren (Bellevue, Wash.) and Dhritiman Sagar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A venue system of a client device can submit a location request to a server, which returns multiple venues that are near the client device. The client device can use one or more machine learning schemes (e.g., convolutional neural networks) to determine that the client device is located in one of specific venues of the possible venues....