ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,191, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
"Smart workstation method and system" was invented by Darrin Sculley (Byron Center, Mich.), Bo Anderson (Byron Center, Mich.), Rachel Anne Neiman (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Brandon Buckingham (Middleville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method establishing control of affordances at a workstation. The method includes the steps of storing affordance preferences in a database for a plurality of portable affordance settings that may be present at a workstation, detecting a subset of affordances present within a first zone associated with the w...