ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,036, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Notifications in a tracking device environment" was invented by Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device determines based on a signal strength threshold when tracking devices communicatively coupled to the mobile device are lost or left behind. The mobile device communicatively couples to a tracking device and receives a first signal transmitted by the tracking device with a signal strength greater than a signal strength threshold. The mobile device receives a second signal transmitted by the tracking device and ...