ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,371, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CELLCONTROL INC. (Baton Rouge, La.).

"Context-aware mobile device management" was invented by Joseph E. Breaux III (Baton Rouge, La.), Michael W. Lynn (Baton Rouge, La.), Chad Howell (Mandeville, La.), Nicholas Hathaway (Zachary, La.) and Chad A. Kennedy (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies disclosed herein are directed to context-based mobile device management. According to one embodiment, an application executing in a mobile device detects an event to trigger context-based management of the mobile device. A usage context associated with the mobile device is determined...