ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,410, issued on March 11, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Intelligent bluetooth beacon I/O expansion system" was invented by Neil Charles Cawse (Oakville, Canada), Darren Marc Lohmann Beams (Oakville, Canada), Stephen Michael Fox (Oakville, Canada) and Cong Zhu (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for an intelligent Bluetooth beacon I/O expansion of the vehicular telemetry hardware system. The intelligent Bluetooth beacon I/O expansion provides a capability to receive beacon data, log beacon data, communicate beacon data and opera...