US Patent Issued to Tile on Oct. 7 for "Tracking functionality standby mode for third party electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,979, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Tracking functionality standby mode for third party electronic devices" was invented by Steven R. Klinkner (Palo Alto, Calif.), Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael George Farley (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device with a primary functionality and a tracking functionality can be used in a centralized tracking system. A controller configures the electronic device to operate in one of a set of: an "on" mode, an "off" mode, a first standby mode, and a tracking standby mode. While configured to operate in the "o...