US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Oct. 28 for "Establishing communication connections" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,648, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Establishing communication connections" was invented by Syed S. Azam (Spring, Texas), Louis R. Jackson Jr. (Spring, Texas), Deepika Hegde (Spring, Texas) and Anthony Kaplanis (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example system comprising a location engine and a protocol engine, the location engine determines a direction of movement between a first device and a second device and the protocol engine establishes a communication connection when a distance between the first device and the second deice is less than a distance designa...