US Patent Issued to Tile on Sept. 1 for "Dynamic selection and modification of tracking device behavior models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,104, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tile Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Dynamic selection and modification of tracking device behavior models" was invented by Josselin de la Broise (Mountain View, Calif.), Aaron Okano (San Francisco) and Akhila Hegde (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking device broadcasts beacon signals that are separated in time by broadcast intervals. The tracking device determines the broadcast intervals based on a behavior model. The behavior model specifies one or more conditions, such as times of day within a 24-hour day, and associates a usage probability with each condition. A higher usag...