US Patent Issued to Brick on May 27 for "Electronic device program blocker" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,086, issued on May 27, was assigned to Brick LLC (Colgate, Wis.).

"Electronic device program blocker" was invented by Thomas John Killian Driver (Hubertus, Wis.) and Zachary Mario Nasgowitz (Colgate, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blocker device that changes a configuration of a user smart device. The blocker device emits an active or passive signal. The user smart device, when disposed within a certain distance of the blocker device, receives such a signal to determine that the blocker device is disposed within a certain distance of the user device. Upon detection of the blocker device being disposed proximate the user device...