ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,622, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"User interaction and notification system" was invented by Eric Breier (Atlanta), Lauren Duxbury (Atlanta), Ashoomi Dholakia (Atlanta), Muthu Saberethinam (Atlanta), Ankur Manake (Suwanee, Ga.) and John Fouts (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a productivity monitoring and notification system. An embodiment operates by determining that an action was received from a first user account of a system, wherein the action was received responsive to a key performance indicator associated with the first user...