US 11,954,639 B2
Method for detecting and tracking groups of assets and system thereof
Hendrik J Volkerink, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Ajay Khoche, West San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Trackonomy Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/592,497.
Application 17/592,497 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/648,917, filed on Jan. 25, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/291,467, filed on Dec. 20, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/215,379, filed on Jun. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/145,103, filed on Feb. 3, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/141,149, filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0300892 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/08 (2023.01); G06K 19/077 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06K 19/0776 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
storing an identifier associated with an asset on a memory of a tracking device attached to the asset, the tracking device configured to wirelessly communicate with other nodes of an asset tracking system including other tracking devices attached to other assets;
detecting, by the tracking device, that the asset that the tracking device is attached to has been grouped with other assets with respective other tracking devices;
determining a manifest of asset identifiers for each asset in the group of assets;
transmitting the manifest to the asset tracking system by at least one tracking device attached to an asset in the group of assets; and
determining, by the asset tracking system, that each asset corresponding to the identifiers in the manifest is used or empty.