ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,537, issued on July 1, was assigned to PHUNWARE INC. (Austin, Texas).
"Proximity-enabled machine control system" was invented by Jeffrey M. White (Snohomish, Wash.) and Roger P. Ang (Huntington Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proximity-enabled machine control system includes a user mobile device having a processor, a touch sensitive screen coupled to the processor, and non-transitory computer readable media with code segments executable on the processor for: (a) determining if the user mobile device is within a proximity zone of a machine; (b) displaying on the touch sensitive screen at least one machine control button ...