US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 3 for "Systems and interfaces for location-based device control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,051, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and interfaces for location-based device control" was invented by Diane Wang (San Francisco) and Paulo Coelho (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for location-based device control are provided. Example systems and methods include determining a location estimate for a computing device and identifying a controllable device based on the location estimate. Some examples also include determining a relative location of the controllable device with respect to the computing device and triggering display, on the computing device...