ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,527, issued on July 8, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Creating and using device orientation fingerprints" was invented by Alexander Waterman (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating and using device orientation fingerprints can include detecting a request to create an orientation fingerprint for a user device, where the orientation fingerprint defines an orientation of the user device and includes a machine learning model that models, for the user device and a known user of the user device, multiple orientations of the device for multiple activities. Operational data that includes orienta...