ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,216, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CLAIRVOYANT TECHNOLOGY INC. (Durham, N.C.).
"Antenna detection using RFID" was invented by Thomas J. Frederick (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Jason Lamb (Wake Forest, N.C.) and John Lourigan (Union Grove, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and features of this disclosure use an RFID tag or other transponder embedded in an RFID antenna to provide a smart RFID antenna. The smart antenna can have a unique identity, at least in its system environment, and the identity can be readable by the RFID reader through a large insertion loss, providing the reader with the capability to accurately detect the an...