US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 16 for "Systems and methods for relative damping of antennas for sensing and tuning in the frequency domain" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,420, issued on June 16, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for relative damping of antennas for sensing and tuning in the frequency domain" was invented by Alexander I. Peraire-Bueno (Cambridge, Mass.) and Anastasios John Hart (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags having functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) engineered to change in resistance when exposed to a variety of analytes to provide an inexpensive framework for distributed sensing. For example, a printing process can be developed for liquid inks comprising CNTs, ...