Patents by Inventor Keiko KATASURAGAWA

Keiko KATASURAGAWA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multi-positional switch using passive wireless tags and systems and methods for using a multi-positional switch that uses passive wireless tags
    Patent number: 11397864
    Abstract: Provided is a system, method, and multi-positional switch using a passive wireless tag to communicate with a wireless tag reader. The wireless tag including: a first set of one or more half-antennas; a second set of one or more half-antennas; and a first set of two or more wireless chips and an electrical contact connected to an open end of each of the wireless chips, each of the wireless chips including data stored thereon, and when one of the electrical contacts completes an antenna circuit including one of the first set of half-antennas and one of the second set of half antennas, the wireless tag reader energizes the completed antenna circuit and the completed antenna circuit transmits the data stored on the wireless chip connected to the electrical contact that is completing the antenna circuit to the wireless tag reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel John Vogel, Keiko Katasuragawa, Omid Salehi Abari
  • MULTI-POSITIONAL SWITCH USING PASSIVE WIRELESS TAGS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING A MULTI-POSITIONAL SWITCH THAT USES PASSIVE WIRELESS TAGS
    Publication number: 20220108091
    Abstract: Provided is a system, method, and multi-positional switch using a passive wireless tag to communicate with a wireless tag reader. The wireless tag including: a first set of one or more half-antennas; a second set of one or more half-antennas; and a first set of two or more wireless chips and an electrical contact connected to an open end of each of the wireless chips, each of the wireless chips including data stored thereon, and when one of the electrical contacts completes an antenna circuit including one of the first set of half-antennas and one of the second set of half antennas, the wireless tag reader energizes the completed antenna circuit and the completed antenna circuit transmits the data stored on the wireless chip connected to the electrical contact that is completing the antenna circuit to the wireless tag reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel John VOGEL, Keiko KATASURAGAWA, Omid SALEHI ABARI