ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,229, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Location-aware collaboration communications" was invented by Jonathan C. Mounty (Milpitas, Calif.) and Suneth Mercian Wilathgamuwage Don (Stabekk, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques associated with facilitating location-aware collaboration communications among multiple users. In one example a method is provided that may include determining that a non-primary user of a first collaboration device is proximate to the first collaboration device; and based on determining that a primary user of the first collaboration devic...