ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,754, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Augmented functions for cooperative enhancement" was invented by Gary D. Cudak (Wake Forest, N.C.), Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.) and John M. Petersen (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For augmented functions, a method determines a support relationship between a first device and a second device in a physical environment, wherein at least the first device is an electronic device. The method determines an augmented function for the first device, wherein the augmented function provides the support relationship. The method executes th...