US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 29 for "Ultrasonic device-to-device communication for wearable devices" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,156, issued on July 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Ultrasonic device-to-device communication for wearable devices" was invented by Kevin Howard Orr (Elmira, Canada) and Craig Eric Ranta (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described that can include transmitting, from a first wearable computing device, a first ultrasound signal and receiving, by the first wearable computing device and responsive to the first ultrasound signal, a second ultrasound signal from a second wearable computing device. The method can include identifying, by the first wearable computing device, a l...