ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,465, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PB Inc. (Issaquah, Wash.).

"XCB tracking devices, methods and systems" was invented by Daniel J. Daoura (Renton, Wash.), Pawel P. Kazimierowicz (Cracow, Poland) and Kal K. Lambert (Hammond, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "XCB poly-radio devices as finders, locators, scanners, sensors, and Bluetooth (BT) radio topology reporters as part of a global lost-and-found services system. XCB devices function as "smart objects" and combine dual transceivers operating in the telecommunications and the low power ISM radio spectra, with default power management overrides under local control of the BT m...