ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,664, issued on June 10.

"Systems/methods of a smartphone functioning in cooperation with auxiliary devices" was invented by Peter D. Karabinis (Cary, N.C.) and Dimitrios P. Karabinis (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/methods are disclosed of a smartphone functioning in cooperation with at least one auxiliary device wherein, according to some embodiments, the smartphone is configured to receive results of monitoring or measurements performed by a first auxiliary device; and to receive results of monitoring or measurements performed by a second auxiliary device. The smartphone is further configured to communicate w...