ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,007, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).
"Power optimized geolocation" was invented by Ernie Aguilar (Austin, Texas), David Gal (Oakland, Calif.) and Eli Peer (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object tracking device, such as may be attached to a trailer to track movements of the trailer, may have various communication capabilities, such as cellular/LTE, Wi-Fi and GPS, which each have varying power requirements. A power optimization routine determines which communications should be performed to conserve battery while also providing frequent location updates. The routine determines if ...