ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,876, issued on May 6, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Location simulation for wireless devices" was invented by Antoine Tran (Bellevue, Wash.), Emile Tran (Sammamish, Wash.) and Dennis Jarret Guill Jr. (Richardson, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a reliability of a wireless device to estimate its location under a simulated environmental condition includes simulating an environmental condition inside a test chamber by controlling a physical parameter. The test chamber contains the wireless user device configured to estimate a location of the wireless user device based on reference si...