ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,977, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Proximity-based content visibility control" was invented by Ramanandan Nambannor Kunnath (Bangalore, India) and Rohit Pradeep Shetty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to proximity-based content visibility control. A secondary client device can request access to an enterprise resource and receive metadata associated with the enterprise resource. The secondary client device can provide, to a primary client device via a peer-to-peer communication channel, data associated with a proximity of the secondary client dev...