ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,764, issued on July 28, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).
"Electronic devices, systems, and corresponding methods for managing alarms across connected devices" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Krishnan Raghavan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system manages alarms across connected electronic devices by detecting companion devices within an environment and determining their relative locations to an authorized user. The system actuates an alarm on the device closest to the user. If no user input is detected, the system shifts the alarm to the next closest device. This dynamic a...