US Patent Issued on June 24 for "Detecting special events and strategically important areas in an IoT tracking system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,246, issued on June 24.

"Detecting special events and strategically important areas in an IoT tracking system" was invented by Hendrik J Volkerink (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking an object includes operating. by a first tape node on the object, in a first operational mode. The first tape node wirelessly communicates with a second tape node on an equipment and determines that the object is being currently transported by the equipment based on the wireless communication with the second tape node. The first tape node then transitions operation of the first t...