ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,547, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Printable tracking device" was invented by Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland) and Peter Kueth (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed that includes: at least one antenna; and a carrier. The carrier includes the at least one antenna, and the at least one antenna is formed by printing the at least one antenna on or to the carrier. The carrier is attachable to an asset to be tracked. The apparatus is configured to enable determining of at least one position estimate indicative of a current position of the apparatus. T...