ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,884, issued on May 27, was assigned to Theatro Labs Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Context and contextual history within an observation platform environment" was invented by Christopher N. Todd (Dallas), Guy R. VanBuskirk (Greenville, S.C.), Ravi Shankar Kumar (Richardson, Texas) and Shiva Cheedella (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating performance metrics for one or more users within an observation platform environment is described. The method includes providing one or more of the users with a communications device capable of sending a user's voice and a secondary signal containing information regarding a locatio...