US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Mobility Solutions on May 12 for "Asset and vehicle coupling" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,538, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bridgestone Mobility Solutions B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Asset and vehicle coupling" was invented by Jan Schafer (Leipzig, Germany), Jan Bast-Loffler (Leipzig, Germany), Martin Marenz (Leipzig, Germany) and Christian Meissner (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset tracking system comprises a server (6), one or more first telematics devices (8) each carried by an asset, and one or more second telematics devices (10) each carried by a vehicle capable of transporting an asset. The server (6) comprises a communications device arranged to communicate with the one or more first and second t...