ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,653, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Augmented device retrieval assistance" was invented by Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa) and Su Liu (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more processors to add identification information of a device to an initialized augmented device retrieval assistance (ADRA) data structure. Received data from ADRA clients monitoring the device within a location includes a network connection status and a time-based position of the device. The ADRA clients dynamically update the ADRA data structure with the location, a current position of the device...