ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,273, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Middle Chart LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Agent supportable device for communicating in a direction of interest" was invented by Michael Wodrich (Jacksonville, Fla.), Michael S. Santarone (Jacksonville, Fla.), Randall Pugh (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Jason E. Duff (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Agent supportable device for determining a direction of an item of interest. The Agent supportable device includes an antenna configured to communicate with the reference transceiver associated with the item of interest. A receiver in the Agent supportable device is in logical communica...