US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Distributed wireless network assisted object location" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,300, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Distributed wireless network assisted object location" was invented by Miguel Mancilla Montiel (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server may receive a request from a remote device to wirelessly locate an object that includes a wireless identification device. The server may also instruct one or more wireless-search enabled devices, comprising a predefined requestor network of devices, to attempt to locate the object. The server may further receive responses from the one or more devices in the network reporting results of attempts to l...