ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,914, issued on May 6, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Tracking device location and coordination" was invented by Omar Leyva (Irvine, Calif.), Christopher Brooks (Milwaukie, Ore.), Steven R. Klinkner (Palo Alto, Calif.), Cihang Yang (Foster City, Calif.), Eric Chiquillo (Elk Grove, Calif.) and Andre Gatti (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication between an owner of a lost tracking device and a finder of a lost tracking device is established. A tracking system receives an identifier of a tracking device and a request for a web page from a mobile device that has captured an image of a smart code on the...