US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on March 3 for "PCB impedance tuning to achieve wideband high acceptance of coil antenna length variation" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,066, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"PCB impedance tuning to achieve wideband high acceptance of coil antenna length variation" was invented by Cheng-Hsiung Lin (Hudson, Ohio), Daniel Harrist (Pittsburgh) and Jason Gill (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are examples related to PCB impedance tuning for wideband operation and acceptance of antenna variation. In one example, a tire monitoring device includes a sensor, RFID circuitry and processing circuitry mounted on a PCB. The RFID circuitry can harvest energy and transmit monitored tire data in response to a receive...