ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,422, issued on May 20, was assigned to Creston Electronics Inc. (Rockleigh, N.J.).

"Hot desk booking using user badge" was invented by Robert Bach (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.), Mark Slivovsky (Rockleigh, N.J.) and Philip Kirkpatrick (Ridgewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Badge data is read by a local workspace access system associated with a local workspace. An organization associated with the badge data is located, and the badge data is transmitted to the organization. A server associated with the organization receives the badge data, locates a member of the organization associated with the badge data, and transmits the workspace...