US Patent Issued to Tile on June 10 for "End-to-end encryption with distributed key management in a tracking device environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,579, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"End-to-end encryption with distributed key management in a tracking device environment" was invented by Steven R. Klinkner (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking device can provide a hashed identifier to a mobile device, for instance within an advertisement packet. The mobile device can query each of a plurality of entities with the hashed identifier to identify an entity associated with the hash key used to generate the hashed identifier. In some embodiments, the mobile device can query a ce...