ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,232, issued on July 21, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Standardizing proximity calculations" was invented by Arnab Bhattacharjee (Bengaluru, India), Amit Chotiya (Jaipur, India), Ankit Hotchandani (Bengaluru, India) and Nikhil Bansal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for standardizing proximity calculations are described herein. A method can include setting, by a computing device, a proximity attribute for each of a plurality of equipment relationship attributes for a user, receiving, by the computing device, a plurality of equipment items each having one ...