US Patent Issued to Getac Technology, WHP Workflow Solutions on April 15 for "Device management during emergent conditions" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,869, issued on April 15, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan) and WHP Workflow Solutions Inc. (North Charleston, S.C.).

"Device management during emergent conditions" was invented by Thomas Guzik (Edina, Minn.) and Muhammad Adeel (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to manage devices during emergent conditions are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, data indicating a function of a second computing device. The actions further include determining,...