ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,794, issued on May 27, was assigned to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Acton, Australia).

"Object monitoring" was invented by Philip Juan Valencia (Acton, Australia) and Nicholas Alexander Heaney (Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object monitoring system including a plurality of tags, each tag being associated with a respective object in use and including a tag transceiver configured to transmit or receive messages and a tag processing device. The tag processing device is configured to determine context data indicative of a context associated with the object and/or other objects and gen...