ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,568, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Landstar System Holdings Inc. (South Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Trailer tracking and detection system" was invented by Matthew Miller (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting and tracking a trailer. The computer-implemented method, when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include initiating, using a detection application, a beacon scan and detecting a signal attribute and a serial number for a plurality of beacons. The operations also include recording the signal attribute and the serial number...