ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,874, issued on May 20, was assigned to M2MD Technology Inc. (Atlanta).
"Determining the status of a tracking device based on orientation" was invented by Charles M. Link II (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery-powered tracking device may comprise a processor and orientation sensors that generate orientation signals and provide them to a processor. The processor may use the orientation signals, or orientation values corresponding thereto, to determine whether or not the tracking device has moved during a configured no-change period relative to a baseline orientation that was determined before the no-change period. The no-...