US Patent Issued to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS on Aug. 11 for "RFID system for identifying equipment and positioning autonomous vehicles in an underwater environment" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,851, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

"RFID system for identifying equipment and positioning autonomous vehicles in an underwater environment" was invented by Alfredo De Andrade De Ornelas Flor (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Antonio Jose Perez Rodrigues De Britto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to embodiments of a radio frequency identification (RFID) system. An embodiment includes a reader/recorder (active element) in autonomous robotic underwater vehicles (AUVs) and an identifying TAG (RFID) (passive element) with memory for ...