US Patent Issued to Impinj on April 21 for "RFID tags indicating availability of additional data to be read" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,576, issued on April 21, was assigned to Impinj Inc. (Seattle).

"RFID tags indicating availability of additional data to be read" was invented by Christopher J. Diorio (Shoreline, Wash.), Megan Marie Brewster (Seattle) and Rene Dominic Martinez (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communications between RFID tags and RFID readers often involve the RFID reader retrieving data from a memory bank of the RFID tag by transmitting a wireless command. The RFID tag can respond to the wireless command by first accessing its memory bank to determine if at least a portion of the requested data is available and if additional data are also av...