ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,491, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZaiNar Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods for asset tag grouping and recovery" was invented by Alexander Feldman (San Ramon, Calif.), Phillip B. Hess (Redwood City, Calif.), Philip Adam Kratz (San Carlos, Calif.), Srdjan Miocinovic (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jonathan Shiao-En Lu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, generating a schedule for an asset tag group, the schedule defining: a multicast trigger time for transmission of a multicast trigger to the asset tag group; and for each asset tag in the asset tag group, a transmit time succeeding receipt of the mu...