US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Feb. 18 for "Method, system and communication device for determining a position of the device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,668, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method, system and communication device for determining a position of the device" was invented by Alberto Gonzalez Escudero (Linkoping, Sweden), Niklas Blomqvist (Linkoping, Sweden) and Ulf Handel (Norsholm, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a system (120) for determining a position of a device (140) connected to a communication network (100) is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a geographical area for the device based on a first position-estimation service, obtaining information on luminosity on the device o...