US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on June 23 for "Methods and systems for controlling antennas and reader devices" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,379, issued on June 23, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Methods and systems for controlling antennas and reader devices" was invented by Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory system comprises an antenna configured to emit interrogation signals in a first direction toward one or more tags, a reader device configured to receive data from the one or more tags, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect a trigger event occurring within an area including the antenna, cause an adjustment to at least one antenna setting of the antenna or at least on...