GeoSentric Oyj (NASDAQ OMX:GEO1V), developers of the award-winning GyPSii mobile social networking application ( www.gypsii.com ), today announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted an EU-wide patent for the transmission of location-based information between devices and the subsequent publishing of that information for viewing on a map. This feature represents what the industry has coined “friend finding,” and as such, is the cornerstone of the combination of mobile social networking and location based services.