ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,315, issued on July 14, was assigned to System Loco Ltd. (Lancaster, Great Britain).

"System and method for dynamic asset tracking and monitoring" was invented by Ian Martin (Lancaster, Great Britain), Souroush Honary (Lancaster, Great Britain), Andrew Parkins (Ramsey, Isle of Man) and Theodore Wlazlowski (Corinth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is comprised of a self-constructed group of identical hubs, which extends the usable battery life of all hubs in the group by forming a self-healing network that eliminates unnecessary network traffic and assures communication integrity. The group communicates with a large...