ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,229, issued on Sept. 8.

"Movement initiated automated information transfer" was invented by Daniel Ian Zwillinger (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for information transfer comprising determining a signed magnitude value of a first and second movement vectors corresponding to movements of the devices. Each value is assigned a positive or a negative sign based on direction of the movement with respect to direction of gravity. Real number values of the signed magnitude values are compared on fulfillment of one or more conditions. A position of the first device is defined as an above position relative to the second ...