US Patent Issued to Tile on Nov. 4 for "Secure and private cloud based broadcast identification" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,312, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Secure and private cloud based broadcast identification" was invented by Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing power consumption of a mobile computing device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal from a tracking device associated with the mobile computing device indicating a detected movement of the tracking device. The method includes activating a location-detection receiver of the mobile computing device. The location-detection receiver is configured to indicate a location of the mobile com...