US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 2 for "Proximity based output selection for computing devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,051, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Proximity based output selection for computing devices" was invented by Stephen Scott Tompkins (San Jose, Calif.), Federico Villa (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Joshua Principe (Los Angeles), Sameer Kumar Bansal (San Francisco), Josef Stephen Burnham (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Robert Hugh Tansley (St Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described for performing proximity-based output selection. A computing device comprising one or more network interfaces and processing circuitry may be configured to perform the techniques. The ...