US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Systems and methods for tracking a tool stored in an enclosure cross-reference to related applications" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,191, issued on July 14.

"Systems and methods for tracking a tool stored in an enclosure cross-reference to related applications" was invented by John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Jake Schwartz (Dearborn, Mich.) and Aaron Matthew DeLong (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods related to tool tracking. In an example embodiment, a method may involve detecting, by a tool monitoring device, a failure of a wireless communication system included in a tool that is stored in an enclosure. The tool monitoring device may determine that the failure is attributable to a tem...