ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,256, issued on July 28, was assigned to Pascal Tags Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Identification tag management system" was invented by Brandon Thomas Young (Louisville, Ky.) and Daniel George Woodruff (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: accessing a target tag identifier for an identification tag; deriving a set of target radio frequency signal characteristics that encode the target tag identifier; and transforming the set of target radio frequency signal characteristics into a map of volumes of a dielectric material arranged proximal a target resonator within the identification tag to modul...