US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 17 for "Automatic time zone detection in devices" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,230, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatic time zone detection in devices" was invented by Ronald S. Ruzicka (Issaquah, Wash.), Ken M. Sadahiro (Redmond, Wash.), Axel Andrejs (Sammamish, Wash.), Matthew D. Johnson (Woodinville, Wash.), Gregory R. Slayden (Kirkland, Wash.) and Wen Li Looi (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for enabling devices to determine the time zone in which they are located. A mobile device may receive location information from one or more sources. Based thereon, the ...