US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Nov. 3 for "Functionally-split RFID reader" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,829, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Functionally-split RFID reader" was invented by Robert Keith Butler (Overland Park, Kan.) and Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency identification (RFID) system for identifying objects associated with RFID tags and facilitating maintenance of digital processing backends, where the RFID system includes a plurality of distributed RFID readers, and where each distributed RFID reader is defined by a radio frequency (RF) front-end and a digital processing backend that is physically isolated from each RF...