ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,712, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Location-based device automation" was invented by David J. Shoemaker (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael I. Ingrassia Jr. (San Jose, Calif.) and Nathaniel P. Hramits (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a presence of a plurality of mobile devices at a geographic location, determining security system automation settings for the geographic location based on the identified plurality of mobile devices, and based on the determination, configuring a security system automa...