US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Unplanned remote collaboration" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,026, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Unplanned remote collaboration" was invented by Anamitra Bhattacharyya (Chelmsford, Mass.), Krishnamohan Dantam (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Manjunath Makonahalli (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to initiate unplanned interactions for remote workers. The method includes identifying a plurality of user accounts, where each user account is associated with a communication device and a physical location. The method further includes determining a location of each communication device within each physical loca...