ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,927, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LOYALTY IOT INC. (Reno, Nev.).
"Proof of geofence" was invented by Michael A. Kerr (Reno, Nev.) and Jesus P. Espinoza (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method include a wireless client device, a cloud component, a gateway component, a geofence, and a proof of geofence (PoG) protocol. The PoG protocol continuously generating a PoG contract when the authenticated wireless client device is within the geofence. The PoG contract includes generating, by the gateway component, a PoG certificate that includes a mobile device public key, and a hash of a previous PoG contract. Also...