US Patent Issued to InstrumentMail on March 18 for "Systems and methods for controlling operation of an article based on detection of an interaction event" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,441, issued on March 18, was assigned to InstrumentMail LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for controlling operation of an article based on detection of an interaction event" was invented by Vimal Bhalodia (East Hanover, N.J.), Robb Walters (San Francisco) and Stuart Alexander Jacobson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting events occurring to an article at a remote location using low-power event detection circuitry and transmission of event detection messages over a network."

The patent was filed on Oct. 23, 2023, ...