This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards approaches for device location and communication. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 8447070 entitled “Approaches for device location and communication” on May 21, 2013. The utility patent has been cited 11 times by other U.S. patents in the field of furniture, games and in other fields.

An electronic device can utilize image capture technology to detect the presence and location of another device. Using this information, the electronic device can display, in a user interface, a graphical element representing a detected device, along with identity information and the location of the detected device relative to the electronic device. The location of each detected device relative to the electronic device can be tracked and thus the graphical element can be updated in the user interface. Link: U.S. Patent 8447070

Amazon filed this utility patent on April 19, 2010 giving it a processing time of 1128 days (compared to an average processing time of 1086 in the field). They have a total number of 6869 patents. The first named inventor is Jeffrey P. Bezos of Seattle, WA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner Claire X Wang and assistant examiner Shervin Nakhjavan.

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