ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,905, issued on April 7, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Impedance matching network" was invented by Cao-Thong Tu (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Kevin Scott Buescher (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impedance matching network (10) for an active RFID transceiver (1), the impedance matching network (10) including: an impedance transformer (14) including a transformer input (13) and a transformer output (15), wherein the transformer input (13) is connectable to an antenna (12), an RF modulator (16) connectable to the transformer output (15), and an RF demodulator (20) capacitively...