ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,086, issued on May 13, was assigned to MOTHERBEAR INC. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"System and methods for persistent passive monitoring" was invented by Demetrious T. Kutzke (Woodbury, Minn.) and Harryel Philippeaux (Panama City Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring of personal belongings and other devices. A mobile application may transmit a first message towards an embedded device, and the first message may include an instruction for the embedded device to transition to a passive state to monitor for a movement update of the embedded device. The mobile application may receive a second message from...