US Patent Issued to Sage Avionics on Feb. 10 for "Combined interrogator and transponder with an omnidirectional antenna" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,204, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sage Avionics Inc. (While Salmon, Wash.).

"Combined interrogator and transponder with an omnidirectional antenna" was invented by Matthew Hamilton (White Salmon, Wash.) and Tom Furey (White Salmon, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is described. This electronic device may include a communication circuit (such as an integrated circuit) that combines an interrogator and a transponder. Notably, the communication circuit may dynamically and temporally interleave an interrogator or the transponder transmission with a transponder response to a second interrogator or the second...