US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Retroactive geofence events" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,021, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Retroactive geofence events" was invented by Swagata Prateek (Vancouver, Canada), Olivier Joseph Serge Durand de Gevigney (Squamish, Canada) and Cory Eden (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of location indications may be received that indicate locations of an object at a plurality of times. A plurality of geofence indications that indicate that the object is within a geofence may be generated based on the plurality of location indications. A plurality of notifications of a plurality of geofence events corresponding to the object ma...