US Patent Issued to Smartrac Technology on May 19 for "Tire RFID tag with segmented dipole antenna" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,691, issued on May 19, was assigned to Smartrac Technology GmbH (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Tire RFID tag with segmented dipole antenna" was invented by Michael Drubel (Odenthal, Germany), Frederic Meyer (Erndtebrueck, Germany) and Christoph Ohm (Siegen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tuneable linear-antenna transponders and methods of making and using thereof are described herein. In some embodiments, the transponder includes two radiators formed of a conductive material, wherein the radiators may be identical or different. In some embodiments, the radiators are divided into a multitude of segments, wherein each segm...