ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,239, issued on July 28.

"Hybrid RFID and wireless communication system for tracking of assets and people and method thereof" was invented by Hendrik J Volkerink (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.) and Saurabh Sanghai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved radio frequency identification (RFID) reader system includes a plurality of wireless integrated RFID readers located in different locations in an environment, one or more RFID tags, each RFID tag configured to generate a radio frequency (RF) response signal based on data stored on the RFID tag, and a wireless communication gateway. Each of...