ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,664, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Group device location coordination" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Krishnan Raghavan (Bangalore, India) and Hariprasad Shanbhogue Alampady (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of group device location coordination, a mobile device implements a group manager that establishes the mobile device as an organizer of a group of one or more additional devices. The group manager receives input to designate a geographical meeting location and an associated designated meeting time for the one or more additional devices. The gro...