US Patent Issued to Target Brands on May 5 for "RFID-based positioning system for indoor environments" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,843, issued on May 5, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"RFID-based positioning system for indoor environments" was invented by David Groomes (Minneapolis), Kalyan Manepalli (Minneapolis), Tim Milne (Minneapolis) and Cameron Peickert (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments described herein include an apparatus for providing RFID-based locations for items located in an indoor environment including an RFID scanner to transmit interrogating RFID signals and to receive RFID identifiers for RFID tags, the RFID tags being affixed to the items in the indoor environment. The apparatus can additionally...