US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Sept. 30 for "Indoor localization based on acceleration events" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,527, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Indoor localization based on acceleration events" was invented by Morgan Mackaay (Sammamish, Wash.) and Antoine Tran (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for locating a user device in an indoor environment include receiving an indication of an acceleration event at a start position and a deceleration event associated with the user device. Based at least on the amount of time elapsed between the acceleration event and the deceleration event, a traveled distance of the user device may be determined. Additionally, sensor data collected ...