ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,548, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Vibration-based location indication system" was invented by Neal Beard (Austin, Texas), Maunish Shah (Austin, Texas), Bruce Anthony Holmes (Austin, Texas) and Douglas Roy Kaiser (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system locating system includes a computing system having a computing system light emitting device that is configured to emit light to provide a computing system locating signal, and a vibration-based location indication system. The vibration-based location indication system includes a light detection subsystem that i...