ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,300, issued on March 17, was assigned to Universal Toll Tag Inc. (Houston).

"Wireless communication tag" was invented by Fareed Zein (Houston) and Abdelrahman Hamid (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for a wireless communication tag. The tag is configured to uniquely identify an account associated with the user for granting the user access to a first access-controlled service controlled by a first authority and a second access-controlled service controlled by a second authority. The tag is implemented through an omnidirectional antenna removably coupled to...