US Patent Issued to PRhObe on Feb. 18 for "Passive reader and active receiver/transmitter devices for logistics tracking" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,620, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PRhObe Inc. (Orinda, Calif.).

"Passive reader and active receiver/transmitter devices for logistics tracking" was invented by Stephen Pearce (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver/transmitter device for logistics tracking configured to monitor or detect a shipment unit includes: a cellular transmitter for transmission of wireless signals via a cellular network; an ultra-wide band (UWB) transmitter for transmission of radio signals over a short-range network; a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader configured to detect a passive RFID tag associated with the shipment un...