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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2021
Applicant:

Tile, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventor:

Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Tile, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G01S 19/03 (2010.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); G01S 19/14 (2010.01); G01S 19/34 (2010.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/028 (2013.01); G01S 19/03 (2013.01); G01S 19/14 (2013.01); G01S 19/34 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 84/042 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08);
Abstract

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 receiver. The determined location can be provided to a tracking system associated with the tracking device. The tracking system can then inform an owner of the tracking device of the determined location. Once the tracking device has been found, the GPS receiver and the transceiver can be disabled to save additional power.


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