ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,711, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Braze Mobility Inc. (Toronto).

"System, device and method for mobile device environment sensing and user feedback" was invented by Pooja Viswanathan (Mississauga, Canada), Ilan Max (Thornhill, Canada) and Graham Browning (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system, device, and method for assisting a user to avoid contacting surfaces with their mobile device. An environment is sensed with one or more electronic sensors. The sensor readings are analyzed. Information is then provided to a user based on the analyzed sensor readings. The sensors may be configu...