ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,285, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).
"ID token monitoring system" was invented by Peter McHugh (San Francisco), Taccio Yamamoto (Chicago) and Justin Robert Aschenbener (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ID token wirelessly communicates a battery voltage to a vehicle gateway via short-range communication. A battery health may be determined based on the current battery voltage and one or more previous battery voltages associated with ID token. Replacement of the ID token may be initiated based on the battery health to avoid communication failures by the ID token due to insufficient battery charg...