US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Dec. 9 for "Asset tracking device and methods for location determination" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,848, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Ontario, Canada).

"Asset tracking device and methods for location determination" was invented by Jason Wayne Jantzi (St. Clements, Canada), Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad (Waterloo, Canada) and Yu Edward Gao (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset tracking device and method for detecting the presence of an intermodal shipping container and responsively selecting a preferred location determination. The device may include a controller, a sensor coupled to the controller, a global navigation satellite system chip, and a cellular signal transceiver. While not detecting a...