US Patent Issued to AVID Identification Systems on April 7 for "Muting circuit for analog filters in radio frequency identification (RFID) systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,894, issued on April 7, was assigned to AVID Identification Systems Inc. (Norco, Calif.).

"Muting circuit for analog filters in radio frequency identification (RFID) systems" was invented by Mark Blair (Riverside, Calif.) and Martin S. H. Ma (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, which allows a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader to recover quickly from transient input to its receiving subsystem when transitioning from writing to an RFID transponder to reading its response. In particular, this apparatus is comprised of muting circuits, which both attenuate transients in its receiving subsystem w...