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Navizon Gets US Patent For First Positioning System Combining GPS, WiFi, Cellular Tech

by Justin

Navizon LogoMexens Technology, the inventor of the Navizon Positioning System, has received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for its “System and Method for Enabling Continuous Geographic Location Estimation for Wireless Computing Devices” (US Patent No. 7397424).  This is major for the company, which was founded in early 2005, and in July of that year released Navizon.  Navizon was the first positioning system to combine GPS, WiFi, and cellular technologies in order to determine super-accurate location information, and relies on a crowdsourced database put together by its global army of 700, 000 users of which 60, 000 are current spread across 60 countries.

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