ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,134, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to THEATRO LABS INC. (Richardson, Texas).

"Refining communication and information flow in an observation platform" was invented by Guy R. VanBuskirk (Greenville, S.C.) and Steven Paul Russell (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of determining and sharing proximity of device users within an environment of an observation platform, the observation platform determines that a first communication device associated with a first user is in the environment of the observation platform. The observation platform detects that the first communication device is in proximity to a second...