ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,362, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sapient Industries Inc. (Philadelphia).
"Device configuration based on detected user" was invented by Samuel M. Parks (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio tones are detected by a device. An identifier of a user is extracted from the audio tones. The identifier of the user and status information associated with the device are transmitted to a remote server. The device is configured based on a rule received from the remote server, wherein the rule is based on times series data received from the device and indicative of usage of the device by the user."
The patent was filed on Sept....