ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,414, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Dynamic tracking device reconfiguration" was invented by Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael George Farley (Foster City, Calif.), Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mayank Kumar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, techniques include a method that includes determining, based at least on historical usage information of a tracking device and tracking device diagnostic information, a length of time the tracking device can continue to operate. The method includes determining that the length of time doe...