ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,899, issued on May 27, was assigned to SHENZHEN TCL NEW TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Screen projection" was invented by Wenhua Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen projection method includes: receiving an identification detection request transmitted by the source device when the source device is within a preset range of the sink device; obtaining real-time proximity information of the source device according to the identification detection request; matching the real-time proximity information of the source device with the learned proximity information to obtain the comparison result; and receiving...