US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 20 for "Methods and systems for location-based audio messaging" (New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,892, issued on May 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Methods and systems for location-based audio messaging" was invented by Minkyung Kim (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Harry J. Laplanche (Gloucester, Mass.), Mark Weinberger (New York) and Anthony Gil Aguila (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method includes a computing system receiving an audio message generated by a first device, determining a physical location of the first device when the audio message is generated, and associating the audio message with the physical location. The method further includes the computin...