ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,243, issued on June 24, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Tracking device search party management" was invented by Guilherme Chapiewski (Cupertino, Calif.) and Mayank Kumar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a tracking system server, and from a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices, a request to locate a tracking device associated with the tracking system server. The request includes reward information for locating the tracking device. The method includes establishing, by the tracking system server, a search party for locating the tracking device in respons...