ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,507, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Asset tracking devices and mobile network coverage" was invented by Jason Wayne Jantzi (St. Clements, Canada), Ryan Anthony Bivinetto (Houston), Mark Edward Reaume (Waterloo, Canada) and Adam Paul Jocksch (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for building a coverage map for a mobile network operator based on a plurality of location reports received from a plurality of deployed asset tracking devices, the reports including geolocation data and mobile network identifiers. On request from a user device the coverage map is used to ...