US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Controller device based varying virtual fencing" (Minnesota, Arizona, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,284, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controller device based varying virtual fencing" was invented by Lowell Thomason (Byron, Minn.), Jessica Wandrey (Kasson, Minn.), Mark E. Maresh (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Richard Burton Finch (New Paltz, N.Y.) and Bradley Smoley (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a virtual fence for a secondary device with respect to a controller device includes activating the controller device associated with a first object and a secondary device associated with a second object. The method includes establishing the virtual ...