US Patent Issued to Arm on Feb. 17 for "Methods and apparatus for ambient computing" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,887, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for ambient computing" was invented by Remy Pottier (Grenoble, France), Nicholas John Cook (Kenilworth, Great Britain), Vasileios Laganakos (Saffron Walden, Great Britain) and Diya Soubra (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a personal intelligent agent in an ambient computing environment, comprising receiving input; analyzing input to derive a user personal preference; associating the personal preference with a first context indicator; determining whether the personal preference is exposable; responsive t...