ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,802, issued on May 27, was assigned to Airgain Inc. (San Diego).
"Asset tracking" was invented by Kurt Larson (Plymouth, Minn.), John Young (Plymouth, Minn.) and Ganesh Sivaraman (Reading, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, asset tag devices, and methods are described herein to provide asset, or object, tracking using a plurality of beacons. The asset tag devices may be affixed, or coupled to, the asset, or object, and may receive beacon advertising packets from the beacons, and then transmit, or broadcast, tag advertising packets including information from the received beacon advertising packets, which may be used to dete...