US Patent Issued to Tile on June 16 for "Issuing remote commands to tracking devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,693, issued on June 16, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Issuing remote commands to tracking devices" was invented by Jossie Haines (Campbell, Calif.), Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.), Steven R. Klinkner (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dan Danknick (San Mate, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method implemented by a computing device includes receiving a tracking signal from a tracking device, and determining an identification of the tracking device based on the tracking signal. The identification includes a unique identifier associated with the tracking device. The method further includes...