ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,551, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Internet of things fleet management with stop arrival and departure filtering" was invented by Bharath T. S. (Karnataka, India), Rahul Paul (Bangalore Karnataka, India), Sourath Roy (Karnataka, India) and Arvind Srinivasan (Pondicherry, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments detect stops by an entity on a pre-planned trip including a plurality of stops and a planned sequence of stops, each stop including a geofence boundary. For each stop, embodiments add an arrival transition region extending inward from the geofence boundary. Emb...