US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Sept. 23 for "Asset tracking devices and mobile network plan selection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,808, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Asset tracking devices and mobile network plan selection" 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 automatically selecting a mobile network rate plan for an asset tracking device based on a set of reported geolocations of the device overtime, coverage data for various mobile networks, and a set of possible network rate plans. A change in mobility rate plans may be implemente...