US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on May 26 for "Ocean-travel configuration of asset tracking devices" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,657, issued on May 26, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Ocean-travel configuration of asset tracking devices" was invented by Jason Wayne Jantzi (St. Clements, Canada), Mark Edward Reaume (Waterloo, Canada), Yu Gao (Waterloo, Canada), Scott Leonard Dill (Paris, Canada), Ryan Michael Parker (Ottawa), Steven Joseph Macdonald (Waterloo, Canada) and Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling an asset tracking device and, in particular, determining when an asset tracking device is aboard a ship. The device may have a ship mode in which the device determ...