ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,499, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SR Technologies Inc. (Sunrise, Fla.).

"Encompassing ellipse for dual location solutions" was invented by Mark Passler (Sunrise, Fla.) and Reese Boucher (Sunrise, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for determining a confidence ellipse (CEP) that encompasses possible locations of one or more target devices, which is a condition that may exist when a wireless device (WD) is initially travelling on an effectively straight path. The method includes calculating the deviation from the straight line path for the WD. If it is determined that the path is effectively a...