US Patent Issued to Electro Rent on March 24 for "Systems, devices, and methods for inventory management via equipment tracking" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,809, issued on March 24, was assigned to Electro Rent Corp. (West Hills, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for inventory management via equipment tracking" was invented by Tim Bealby (Harrow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for wirelessly locating and tracking a multitude of devices in real-time within a finite space, graphically representing the location of said devices, and deriving utilization of tracked assets being deployed within the space by utilizing one or more short-range wireless readers and one or more short-range wireless tags, collocated with a tracked device."

The pate...