US Patent Issued to Headwater Research on May 12 for "Enhanced curfew and protection associated with a device group" (Nevada, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,741, issued on May 12, was assigned to Headwater Research LLC (Tyler, Texas).

"Enhanced curfew and protection associated with a device group" was invented by Gregory G. Raleigh (Incline Village, Nev.), Jose Tellado (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeffrey Green (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Lavine (Denver, N.C.) and Russell Bertrand Carter III (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising obtaining, from a master user, a device usage allocation applicable to two or more devices, the two or more devices being associated with another user, the another user being different from the master user, obtaining an aggregate measure ...