US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for determining an altitude of a wireless station" (New Jersey, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,495, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for determining an altitude of a wireless station" was invented by Amir Saghir (Frisco, Texas), Mingxing S. Li (San Jose, Calif.), Rakesh Chandwani (Morganville, N.J.) and Edward Amoah (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive small cell data associated with a small cell, wherein the small cell data includes small cell location data and a small cell barometric pressure reading. The device may identify a calibration user device connected to the small cell and may receive, from the calibrat...