US Patent Issued to Google on March 18 for "Creating a communication channel between user devices and local stores" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,288, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Creating a communication channel between user devices and local stores" was invented by Matteo Agosti (Bellinzona, Switzerland) and Ankit Gupta (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user-to-entity communication channel is established for providing increased information regarding entities to the general population. Ambassadors for a entity are identified and selected based on location history of devices for which location reporting is authorized. The ambassadors may provide information regarding the entity to the public through the communication channel....