ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,201, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Illuminating mobile entities with marking devices" was invented by Dorota Gawarzynska (Cracow, Poland), Przemyslaw Pikulski (Cracow, Poland) and Artur Kaczanowski (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis is performed on a request to compare a resource determined from the request with resources provided or needed by mobile physical entities, such as people, vehicles, or equipment. The analysis includes matching the request to a mobile physical entity. A target marking device that is associated with the mobile physical entity that matches the ...