ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,873, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Tracking device location identification" was invented by Pierre-Marie Leveque (San Francisco), Wayne Patterson (Burlingame, Calif.) and Arunkumar Puppala (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes periodically transmitting, by a community device of a plurality of community devices, and to a tracking system server, an updated location of a tracking device based on a last time a location of the tracking device was provided to the tracking system server, and receiving, by the community device, and from the tracking system server, a request for a...