ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,913, issued on May 6, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).
"Redundant asset tracking" was invented by Glenn H. Atkinson (Palgrave, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure proposes a system in which two redundant asset tracking devices are used to monitor a single asset (such as a vehicle, which may contain a group of assets in cargo) via two distinct communication systems that operate in parallel, and which may operate in addition to any primary mode of communication used by the asset tracking devices (e.g., cellular communication). In some examples, each asset tracking device may communicate through separate...