Apple files application to patent 'Find My Friends' locator system in India

The company claims its innovation helps users locate friends and family members, allows parents to keep a tab on children, offers temporary location identification services for business people

Consumer electronics major Apple Inc has applied for patent exclusivity for its friend finder application in India. The company claims that while using a GPS device to locate a friend would consume a lot of power, its invention has an advantage over the existing models.

Apple, which has a friend finder application called 'Find My Friends', has recently applied to the Indian patent office for its invention titled "Identifying and locating users on a mobile network".

The company claims that the innovation has a wide range of uses, such as locating friends and family members through their respective mobile devices,