US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on March 4 for "Method and system for internet of things asset tracking within an intelligent transportation system" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,000, issued on March 4, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and system for internet of things asset tracking within an intelligent transportation system" was invented by Ian Christopher Drummond Doig (Roquefort les Pins, France) and Stephen John Barrett (Haywards Heath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method at an asset tracking device, the method including activating a receiver at the asset tracking device; obtaining an intelligent transportation system message using the receiver; determining a position from the intelligent transportation system message; and reporting the determined position to...