ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,205, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-interface transponder device-altering power modes" was invented by James H. Foster (Oxford, Great Britain), Marlene Nilsen (London) and Paul G. Puskarich (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for performing power management of a multi-interface transponder (MIT) device, e.g., such as positional tag device. The MIT device may transition between various power states, e.g., based on detected events, such as detecting movement of the MIT device, receiving a wakeup signal, receiving an indication of a transition in transportation mode, and/or detecting...