ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,900, issued on June 2, was assigned to NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Douliu City, Taiwan).

"Inductive floor mat recording system" was invented by Chia-Hung Chang (Douliu City, Taiwan), Tung-Ming Koo (Douliu City, Taiwan), Chi-Sen Tai (Douliu City, Taiwan) and Huey-Yeh Lin (Douliu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive floor mat recording system for reading an RFID tag, includes at least one RFID transceiver device, floor mats and a host. The at least one RFID transceiver device has at least two transceiver antennas, a reading element for reading the RFID tag, a power divider and a wireless tra...