ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,239, issued on June 16, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Configuration of computing devices based on geographic pattern detection" was invented by Tori Knight (Pasadena, Calif.), Jonathon Gumbiner (Roseland, N.J.) and Umasankar Thanikachalam (Glendora, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuring computing devices based on geographic pattern detection is provided. A system provides a first mapping application on computing devices. The first mapping application can display an approximate location of each computing device of the computing devices. The system provides interactive interface elements to the computing devic...