US Patent Issued to ECOLINK INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 18 for "Method and apparatus for location-based, automated control of electronic devices" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,985, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ECOLINK INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for location-based, automated control of electronic devices" was invented by Michael Archbold (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Paul D. Arling (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus are described for automatically performing home or business-based actions. A predefined geographic boundary may be defined around a home or a business. When a personal communication device inside a vehicle crosses a boundary of the predefined geographic boundary, the personal communication device sends a shor...