US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on Aug. 12 for "Method and system for estimating the presence of people on a territory exploiting mobile communication network data" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,201, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Method and system for estimating the presence of people on a territory exploiting mobile communication network data" was invented by Massimo Colonna (Turin, Italy), Piero Lovisolo (Turin, Italy), Dario Parata (Turin, Italy) and Massimiliano Petra (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including subdividing a geographic area of interest in geographic zones; subdividing the geographic area of interest in geographic area portions; causing mobile communication terminals situated in the geographic area of interest to calculate respective geographic posi...