US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 31 for "Intelligent distance prompting" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,796, issued on March 31, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent distance prompting" was invented by Joel Viale (Vence, France), Frederic Bauchot (La Tourraque, France), Zsolt Szalai (Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France) and Georges-Henri Moll (Roquefort les Pins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining location data that specifies respective locations of a plurality of users in a venue, wherein the plurality of users include first through Nth users wit...