ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,968, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Power preservation in GPS-equipped tracking devices" was invented by Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power can be preserved in a tracking device equipped with a GPS receiver and a transceiver by evaluating the proximity of the tracking device to a mobile device and enabling the GPS receiver and transceiver only in the event that the tracking device is out of the range of the mobile device. Once enabled, the location of the tracking device can be determined based on location information received from the GPS recei...