US Patent Issued to Tile on June 10 for "Secure and private cloud based broadcast identification" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,636, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Secure and private cloud based broadcast identification" was invented by Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device by generating a hash value based on the identity of the tracking device. If the secondary device cannot resolve the hash value, the hash value can be provided to a tracking server, such as a cloud server, for resolving the hash value. Upon resolving the hash value, the tracking server can store a location of the tracking device in association with the...