ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,950, issued on May 27, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Communication and signaling devices and methods" was invented by Shelby Frances Apps (Atlanta), Gregory Keith Adams (Roswell, Ga.), Kwan Woo Lee (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Grant Charles Paton (Dundee, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein include at least one of devices, systems, methods, and software of communication and signaling devices. One device embodiment includes a visual signaling output, at least one radio transceiver, and a network interface device. This device further includes a processor and a memory device storing instructio...