US Patent Issued to BARCO on June 3 for "User-centric connections to a location comprising digital collaboration tools" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,472, issued on June 3, was assigned to BARCO N.V. (Kortrijk, Belgium).

"User-centric connections to a location comprising digital collaboration tools" was invented by Michael Toon Andre Arthur Vanderheeren (Bissegem, Belgium), Gauthier Renard (Kuurne, Belgium), Laurens Cyrille Vandenbroucke (Bredene, Belgium) and Johan Peter Frans Degraef (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device and system for providing user-centric connections to a location comprising digital collaboration tools, as well as software for carrying out the method. The method includes a network device having a beacon system for proximity detection ...