US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on July 15 for "Technology for managing location-based functionalities for electronic devices" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,503, issued on July 15, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Technology for managing location-based functionalities for electronic devices" was invented by Benjamin Weiss (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing and facilitating geofencing features associated with electronic devices are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an entity may own or manage a set of retail stores. A server associated with the entity may receive an estimated location of an electronic device, and may determine that the estimated location is in proximity to one of the set of retail stores. The server may further ...