US Patent Issued to Impinj on July 28 for "Modified RFID tag inventorying process" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,576, issued on July 28, was assigned to Impinj Inc. (Seattle).

"Modified RFID tag inventorying process" was invented by Megan Marie Brewster (Seattle), Scott A. Cooper (Seattle), Christopher J. Diorio (Shoreline, Wash.), John D. Hyde (Corvallis, Ore.), Rene Dominic Martinez (Seattle) and Matthew Robshaw (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protocol-specified RFID tag inventorying can be modified to streamline information exchange. For example, RFID tags may be able to respond to certain RFID reader commands with additional or other information instead of only a pseudorandom number or a certain tag identifier, or may not even respo...