ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,113, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Asset position tracking with external object" was invented by Murali Mohan Talapureddi (Hyderabad, India), Madhava Gadicherla (Bangalore, India) and Saravanakumar Gurusamy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: receiving data associated with a unique identity of a vehicle asset to identify the vehicle asset; receiving data associated with a unique identity of a smart wheel chock to identify the smart wheel chock; associating the identified vehicle asset with the identified smart wheel chock, such that a location of...