US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 7 for "Grouped transmission of location data in a location sharing system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,223, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Grouped transmission of location data in a location sharing system" was invented by Eric Guillaume (Sannois, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for grouped transmission of location data in a location sharing system. Consistent with some embodiments, a first client device of a first user receives, over a wireless communication network (e.g., a wireless local area network (WLAN)), a request for location data. The first client device, broadcasts a probe request via a first wireless communication channel using a more energy efficient...