US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Computer-based coordination of interactive fence zones and individualized alerts" (Minnesota, Arizona, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,943, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer-based coordination of interactive fence zones and individualized alerts" was invented by Lowell Thomason (Byron, Minn.), Bradley Smoley (Rochester, Minn.), Jessica Wandrey (Kasson, Minn.), Mark E. Maresh (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and Richard Burton Finch (New Paltz, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamically coordinating interactive fence zones and alerts includes receiving, by one or more processors, location data corresponding to a first object. A virtual fence location and a virtual fence type are determined for the first objec...