ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,248, issued on March 17, was assigned to Electro Rent Corp. (West Hills, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for tracking remote equipment location and utilization of computing devices" was invented by Tim Bealby (Harrow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for tracking remote equipment utilization of, for example, mobile computing devices, by managing received location information data and device usage data at a remote computing device, where the managing includes determining whether to store the received location information data and device usage data and whether to delete previously rece...