US Patent Issued to Samsara on March 18 for "Low power physical asset location determination" (California, Tennessee, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,617, issued on March 18, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Low power physical asset location determination" was invented by Ernie Aguilar (Austin, Texas), Pierre Gavaret (Novato, Calif.), Jason Smith (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Christopher Frost (San Francisco) and Matthew Basham (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for determining a peripheral's location based on observations from a plurality of centrals. A central may periodically transmit its location and observations of peripherals to a backend. The backend may match the location of the central with one or more observations...