ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,566, issued on April 14, was assigned to TelemeTrak Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Asset tracking using RFID powered by movement of a transport platform" was invented by Frederick Steinway Ziegler (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, interested parties would like to track assets in a transportation environment. In some examples, the asset could be cargo associated with a transport platform. Some of the examples described herein utilize the motion of a transport platform to power two or more RFID readers to read an identifier stored within an RFID tag that is coupled to an asset. Based on signals received from th...