ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,151, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Automated device control session" was invented by Alden Rose (Morrisville, N.C.), Ali Ent (Morrisville, N.C.), Ghwang Hyun Lim (Morrisville, N.C.), Jeffrey E. Skinner (Morrisville, N.C.) and Jung Hwan Hong (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving by a mobile device, an identifier transmitted wirelessly from a tagged device; accessing proximity information using the identifier and the mobile device; performing a wireless ranging protocol using the mobile device to determine a distance from the mobile device to the ...