ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,182, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Virtual advertising based on physical location" was invented by John D. Hopkins (Milpitas, Calif.) and Mohad Baboli (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and non-transitory machine-readable media associated with virtual advertisements based on physical location are described. An apparatus can include a memory device and a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can detect a computing device within a first threshold radius of a first physical location and a second threshold radius of ...