US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 21 for "Methods and apparatuses for creating and using a wireless tag" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,389, issued on July 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and apparatuses for creating and using a wireless tag" was invented by David Luksenberg (Philadelphia) and Gaurav Naik (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses are described for creating, activating, monitoring and/or programming an RFID tag. The RFID tag may include a power activation circuit that, when opened, allows the RFID tag to draw power, or additional power, from a battery. The RFID tag may include one or more contacts that may be altered in different combinations to provide programming instr...