ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,270, issued on Oct. 21.
"Tracking systems for electronic devices" was invented by Adam S. Meyer (Cupertino, Calif.), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Martha Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Peter C. Tsoi (San Jose, Calif.), John B. Morrell (Los Gatos, Calif.) and James H. Foster (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry for locating lost items. The control circuitry may determine where an item is located and may use the display or other output device to guide a user to the item. The display may display a visual guide such as an arrow, a sphere, a circle, a compas...