US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on June 16 for "Method and apparatus for increasing RFID read range in daisy chain configuration" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,954, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and apparatus for increasing RFID read range in daisy chain configuration" was invented by Gourango Lal Biswas (Charlotte, N.C.), Pankaj Kumar Pandey (Charlotte, N.C.), Shashidhar Ramamurthy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Gulshan Kumar (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repeating switch antenna comprising a transmission signal amplifier configured to amplify a transmission signal based on a power control signal, a first coupler configured to receive (i) the amplified transmission signal, (ii) a reception signal, and (iii) a load impedance...