ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,254, issued on July 1, was assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Using combination of GPS and BLE beaconing to locate a lock box" was invented by Adam Cooper (Independence, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of locating a lock box including: obtaining a saved location of the lock box using an application operated via a first cellular telephone, the saved location of the lock box being accurate within a first selected radius; displaying the saved location of the lock box on the first cellular telephone via the application; detecting a Bluetooth advertisement of the lock box using the first cellular tele...