ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,125, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Attested location vector generation system" was invented by Robert Thomas Franzo (Northport, Mich.), Arthur Miller (La Mesa, Calif.) and Shammi Khattar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a reader device reads a first tag at a first read time, wherein the first tag is attached to an asset, and generates a first attested location vector (ALV) corresponding to the first tag, wherein the first ALV comprises a first attestation identifier, a first timestamp corresponding to the first read time, a firs...