US Patent Issued to Powercast on Aug. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for the arbitration of RF power between an ultra high frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) system and an external assembly" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,451, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Powercast Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Methods and apparatus for the arbitration of RF power between an ultra high frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) system and an external assembly" was invented by Jason Arthur Gill (Pittsburgh), Eric James Biel (Glenshaw, Pa.) and Charles Edward Greene (Butler, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an antenna, analog circuitry, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) state machine, a radio-frequency-to-direct current (RF-to-DC) converter, and one of a splitter or a switch operatively coupled to the RF-to-DC c...