ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,354, issued on March 25, was assigned to JONES LANG LASALLE IP INC. (Chicago).

"Methods for managing workspace reservations based on user location mapping and devices thereof" was invented by Kourosh Sadr Momtaz (Richmond, Great Britain), Laura Tedoldi (Paris), Yu-Chun Tsai (San Jose, Calif.) and Samantha Akomeah (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and reservation management devices are disclosed that obtain workspace parameter(s) from a client device after authenticating a user of the client device. User geolocations are determined for the authenticated user and registered user(s)...