ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,078, issued on May 12, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.
"Passive RFID tag placement for cybernetic command control via localization" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.) and Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous appliance configured to operate in a facility. The autonomous appliance includes a chassis including a motor configured to move the autonomous appliance within the facility and a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag reader configured to communicate with infrastructure RFID tags attached to fixed infrastructure and with product RFID tags attached to prod...