US Patent Issued to XEROX on March 18 for "Computer-implemented system and method for entity tracking and identification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,376, issued on March 18, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Computer-implemented system and method for entity tracking and identification" was invented by Felicia Linn (San Jose, Calif.), Ramkumar Abhishek (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Ashish V. Pattekar (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method for entity tracking and identification is provided. A tracker associated with an entity is tracked. Communication is continuously attempted between the tracker and a tracking device associated with an individual in custody of the entity. During one of the attempted communications, an ab...