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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daniel J. Ulrich, Hamilton, OH (US);
Michael Edward Wagener, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Sanjeev Patel, Chicago, IL (US);
Joseph J. Schmid, Gurnee, IL (US);
Robert J. Jennings, Annandale, VA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 ;
Abstract
A personnel and asset tracking system for locating and tracking objects throughout an awareness area comprises a communication network, a central server connected to said communication network maintaining an awareness area database, a plurality of receiver nodes, and a plurality of tags. Each tag is associated with an object to be tracked and has a transmitter which periodically transmits a tag transmission including a unique object identifier.