US 12,476,717 B2
Tracking system and tracking device
Jason Anthony Soloff, Houston, TX (US); Curtis Dale Spencer, Houston, TX (US); John Stephen Schellenberg, Houston, TX (US); Jeffrey Robert Hopkins, Oakdale, PA (US); Tom Leslie Hinckley, Erie, PA (US); Joshua Andrew Sharpe, Huntsville, AL (US); and Mark Wesley Garrett, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to BLOODHOUND TRACKING DEVICE, INC., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Bloodhound Tracking Device, Inc., Webster, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/088,711.
Application 19/088,711 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2023/033545, filed on Sep. 22, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/409,505, filed on Sep. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0253958 A1, Aug. 7, 2025
Int. Cl. H04B 11/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01)
CPC H04B 11/00 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a tracking device instrumentation unit (TD-IU), comprising:
a TD-IU processor configured to generate an electrical analog signal (EAS) and transmit the EAS to a first converter the TD-IU;
the first converter configured to convert the EAS into mechanical vibration energy (MVE) and transmit the MVE towards a tracking device communications unit (TD-CU) through a wall of a container;
the TD-CU, comprising:
a second converter configured to:
receive the MVE, wherein the MVE is received via a link between the second converter and the first converter, wherein the MVE comprises a form of data generated in the TD-IU;
convert the MVE into a second EAS, wherein the second EAS is transmitted to a modem of the TD-CU, wherein the modem sends the second EAS to a TD-CU processor; and
the TD-CU processor comprises circuitry and is configured to process the second EAS to extract the data based on a start of a data frame and an end of the data frame.