US Patent Issued to 365 Retail Markets on April 21 for "Proximity detection system for request processing" (Arizona, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,694, issued on April 21, was assigned to 365 Retail Markets LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Proximity detection system for request processing" was invented by Chad Francis (Buckeye, Ariz.) and Krishna Vedula (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is processed by a control device based on a detected proximity of a client device to the control device. The control device, which is intermediate to the client device and a beacon device, runs application software that receives the request generated using a client application running at the client device. The beacon device, upon receipt of an indication that the control device received ...