ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,162, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for activation triggering using time-series based event data" was invented by Abhilash Panwar (Redmond, Wash.), Clemens Alden Szyperski (Bellevue, Wash.), James Douglas Hutton (London), John Te-Jui Sheu (Bellevue, Wash.), Luca Colantonio (Redmond, Wash.), Maxim Kiryushin (London), Pawel Mateusz Chodarcewicz (Redmond, Wash.), Phanidhar Gopavaram (Redmond, Wash.) and William Charles Thompson (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to detecting occurrence of triggers related to propert...