US Patent Issued to Ferret Systems on March 4 for "Item tracking system that switches between short-range and long-range location services" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,121, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ferret Systems Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Item tracking system that switches between short-range and long-range location services" was invented by Gary Leung (San Jose, Calif.), Venu Gutlapalli (San Diego) and Joseph Reddy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item tracking system that uses smart tracking labels to track an item's position, and that switches between short-range tracking within a local area using short-range interfaces like Bluetooth and long-range tracking within a global or regional area using long-range interfaces like GPS. Long-range communication interfaces may be dis...