ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,788, issued on May 13, was assigned to Jonathan A. Tyler (Ashuelot, N.H.).

"Device, system, and method for determining a location of a vehicle" was invented by Jonathan A. Tyler (Ashuelot, N.H.), Matteo Karim Carlo Edmondo Borri (San Rafael, Calif.) and Kenneth Allan Tarlow (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locator device includes a housing, a plurality of directional indicators, a first button, a second button, a memory, and a GPS device. The device also includes a processor adapted to determine that the first button has been pressed, and, in response, obtain from the GPS device first location data representing a ...