ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,023, issued on July 1, was assigned to Aeris Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Learning locations of interest using IoT devices" was invented by Jins George (Fremont, Calif.), Anupam Bagchi (San Jose, Calif.), Subramanian Balakrishnan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Hector Aquiles Rodriguez (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method and system for learning places of interest are disclosed. The method includes learning and storing location information of at least one mobile device; detecting a location where no movement of the at least one mobile device has occurred over a pre-determ...