ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,452, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PassiveLogic Inc. (Holladay, Utah).
"Positioning feedback for device-to-device communications" was invented by Marciano Carter Preciado (Salt Lake City) and Greg Hughes (Orem, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Displaying, on a screen of a mobile device having a camera, a real-time image from the camera; displaying, on the screen, feedback indicating positioning of a second device captured in the real-time image; determining that the positioning of the mobile device relative to the second device is sufficient to trigger an action on the second device; and triggering the action on the second devi...