ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,470, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to IRISS Holdings Inc. (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Near field communication (NFC)-based asset management system and method" was invented by Martin Robinson (Bradenton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one example, a method includes receiving one or more work orders associated with work scheduled for one or more assets. Each of the work orders is at least partially viewable on a mobile device and each of the work orders is locked to editing from the mobile device. The method further includes receiving an indication that a NFC reader of the mobile device has received first data from a NFC ta...