US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Device locationing using a beacon of a battery pack" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,685, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Device locationing using a beacon of a battery pack" was invented by Carl DeGiovine (Sayville, N.Y.), Sarika Jain (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Michael Robustelli (Smithtown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device locationing using a beacon of a battery pack is described herein. A battery pack may determine that a user device is connected to the battery. The battery pack may determine, based on a power output of the battery, that the user device is inactive. The battery pack may cause, based on determining that the user device is inactive, the b...