Location Mapping Service Gets Chinese, U.S. Patents

Hyper-local and indoor positioning services firm sensewhere secured patents in China and the U.S., a company news release said Wednesday. The patent issued by the Patent and Trademark Office is for a method by which a singular device can "assist another device to obtain a position fix," sensewhere said. The patent issued by the Chinese government differs from the U.S. patent in that it covers a method to map wireless access points by using location references from a user device, the company said.