US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Managing communication with and amongst mobile units" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,174, issued on Oct. 20.

"Managing communication with and amongst mobile units" was invented by Alberto Vidal (San Jose, Calif.), Manu Rao (Campbell, Calif.) and Prasad Panchalan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for managing communications amongst mobile computing units. The invention includes location detection, three-dimensional proximity detection and alert systems for and amongst mobile units, through the utilization of low-power local communications protocols. The systems and methods minimize power consumption by the mobile units, and enable for robust, reconfigurable real-time lo...