ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,329, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Anonymization in a low power physical asset tracking system" was invented by Gabriel Torres (Boulder, Colo.), Ernie Aguilar (Austin, Texas), Wael Barakat (San Francisco), Eli Peer (San Carlos, Calif.), David Gal (Oakland, Calif.), Pierre Gavaret (Novato, Calif.) and Matthew Basham (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for transmitting broadcasts by Peripherals, receiving the broadcasts by Centrals, and communicating with a Backend by Centrals. Specifically, a Peripheral may generate and transmit an encrypted broadcast pa...