US Patent Issued to IMPRIVATA on March 11 for "Inference-based detection of proximity changes" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,542, issued on March 11, was assigned to IMPRIVATA INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Inference-based detection of proximity changes" was invented by Alain Slak (Bedford, Mass.), Paul Bradford (Bedford, Mass.), Boris Boruchovich (Bedford, Mass.), Lou Bergandi (Fallbrook, Calif.), Jay Tucker (Arlington, Mass.), Joel Lemieux (Natick, Mass.) and Jason Mafera (Francestown, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention analyze multiple factors-such as user input events, device motion data, other data from the endpoint, or data from an external system (such as a real-time location system)-to make a probabilistic determinat...