ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,634, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.

"Radio frequency identity (RFID) tag reader designation of excluded tag transmission time slots" was invented by Lyle T. Bertz (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Robert K. Butler (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency identity (RFID) tag reader. The reader comprises a radio transceiver; a non-transitory memory; a processor coupled to the radio transceiver and to the non-transitory memory; and an RFID tag reader application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the application sends a message via the radio transceiver t...