ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,137, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BLANCCO TECHNOLOGY GROUP IP OY (Joensuu, Finland).

"System and method for detection of mobile device fault conditions" was invented by William Fitzgerald (Cork, Ireland), Donal O'Shaughnessy (Cork, Ireland) and Donie Kelly (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is presented a system and method for detecting mobile device fault conditions, including detecting fault conditions by software operating on the mobile device. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for systems and methods for detecting that a mobile device has a cracked screen, and reporting the status of the scr...