ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,243, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Methods and systems for optimizing performance of an inventory system using mini-cell sites" was invented by Pei Hou (Centreville, Va.), Lyle Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.), Bharatwajan Raman (Arlington, Va.) and Durga Satapathy (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory system comprises one or more mini-cell sites, one or more reader devices to read tags, and a control system. The mini-cell site comprises radio equipment configured to broadcast power signals within an inventory environment. The control system transmits a first i...