US Patent Issued to GETAC TECHNOLOGY, WHP WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS on Dec. 30 for "Operational state management of connected user devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,071, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GETAC TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan) and WHP WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS INC. (North Charleston, S.C.).

"Operational state management of connected user devices" was invented by Thomas Guzik (Edina, Minn.) and Muhammad Adeel (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operational states of multiple user devices may be managed based on information that is exchanged by the multiple user devices via heartbeat signals. A user device may receive heartbeat signals from multiple connected devices. A determination is made based at least on the heartbeat signals whether a higher-level hub device with an a...