ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,550, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SATO Corp. (Tokyo).

"RFID antenna system" was invented by Ganesh Nagendra (St Peters, Australia) and Tai Wai Pong (St Peters, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna system (100) is adapted to receive and implement firmware programming from an RFID reader. The RFID antenna system comprises a plurality of antenna coils (104) for reading RFID tags, a selection circuit (106) configured to activate an active antenna coil from the plurality of antenna coils (104), and a processor (108) configured to control operation of the selection circuit (106). Th...