ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,348, issued on March 25, was assigned to GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Alert peripheral for notification of events occurring on a programmable user equipment with communication capabilities" was invented by Alberto R. Cavallaro (Northbrook, Ill.) and Martin R. Pais (North Barrington, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert peripheral device that provides sensory notification to a user of the device includes: a power subsystem; a communication mechanism by which notification signals is received from a first user equipment (UE) that generates and transmits the notification signals in response to detecti...