ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,310, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ETO MAGNETIC GmbH (Stockach, Germany).
"Multifunctional tag" was invented by Benjamin Bonisch (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany), Tobias Plotzing (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Walter Naumann (Immenstaad, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunctional tag includes one or more first monitoring sensor units and one or more second monitoring sensor units. The first monitoring sensor unit is for the purpose of omnidirectional direction determination with respect to one or more further multifunctional tags. The second monitoring sensor unit is for the purpose of direction-restricted, for exa...