ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,287, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Physical knowledge action triggers" was invented by Fergus Gerard Hurley (San Francisco) and Robin Dua (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, for defining and monitoring an event for a physical entity and the performance of an action in response to the occurrence of the event. A method includes receiving data indicating an event for a physical entity, the event specified in part by a physical environment feature for which the occurrence of the event is to be monitored by the data processing apparatus; receiving data indi...