US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on June 10 for "System and method for registration of a network enabled location tracking device" (Washington, Hawaii, Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,644, issued on June 10, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"System and method for registration of a network enabled location tracking device" was invented by Jean Cheryl Trakinat (Ewa Beach, Hawaii), Scott Francis Migaldi (Cary, Ill.), Karri Mikael Kuoppamaki (Redmond, Wash.) and Mark L. Younge (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for registering a location tracking device affixed to an item or other merchandise with a cellular or mobile network provider associated with the purchaser are described herein. In some cases, user equipment in physical proximity to the location tracking device...