ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,409, issued on March 4, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Safe zones in tracking device environments" was invented by Robert Doxey (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arunkumar Puppala (Fremont, Calif.) and Wayne Patterson (Burlingame, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking system determines if a tracking device is located within a safe zone based on whether a set of safe conditions are satisfied. The set of safe conditions includes a geographic boundary or a geographic location and corresponding threshold distance. The set of safe conditions can also include a time window during which a safe zone is active. When a tracking...