Specified Antenna Structure Patents (Class 340/572.7)
  • Patent number: 11966802
    Abstract: An RFID system includes an RFID antenna assembly configured to be positioned on a product module assembly of a processing system. The product module assembly is configured to releasably engage at least one product container. A first RFID tag assembly configured to be positioned on the at least one product container. The at least one product container is configured to position the first RFID tag assembly within a detection zone of the RFID antenna assembly whenever the product module assembly releasably engages the at least one product container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: James J. Dattolo, David Blumberg, Jr., Eric J. VanWyk
  • Patent number: 11949170
    Abstract: Apparatus, system and method to provide switchable coils in a computing device, comprising: a plurality of electrically conductive coils to transfer electromagnetic energy; a sensor coupled to a processor, to select a coil from among the plurality of electrically conductive coils; a switch to energize the selected coil; and a switch controller coupled to the switch and to the processor. In some embodiments, the plurality of coils may comprise an inductive charging interface. Some embodiments may further include a communication interface between the processor to the plurality of electrically conductive coils, the plurality of coils comprising an interface for near-field communications (NFC). The antenna coils may be arranged to provide improved NFC coverage when the computing device is in a respective predetermined physical configuration. Sensors may be used to detect the configuration and switch NFC communications to use a preferred antenna coil for the detected configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Anand S. Konanur, Songnan Yang, Ulun Karacaoglu, Jiancheng Tao, Farid Adrangi
  • Patent number: 11948123
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a third party access to interaction data of an article. An event detection system can be coupled to an article for a recipient. The event detection system can include a wireless communication interface and a sensor configured to detect at least one interaction event that occurs at the article. Interaction data related to the at least one interaction event can be generated that includes a user identifier of the recipient that is uniquely associated with an article identifier of the article. The interaction data can be transmitted through the wireless communication interface to an operating server for providing a third party access to the interaction data based on the inclusion of the user identifier and the article identifier with the interaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: InstrumentMail, LLC
    Inventors: Vimal Bhalodia, Robb Walters, Stuart Alexander Jacobson
  • Patent number: 11928540
    Abstract: An RFID tag includes a circuit board, an RFID IC and a functional module. The circuit board has an antenna conductor. The RFID IC is mounted on the circuit board. The functional module is connected to the circuit board through a lead wire. An electrical length of a connection wiring that electrically connects the functional module to an element on the circuit board is within ±10% of an integral multiple of a half wavelength of a radio signal that the RFID IC transmits or receives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Ko Chishiki, Noritaka Niino
  • Patent number: 11922249
    Abstract: An RFID label includes: a substrate; a dipole antenna formed of a metal foil so as to have a predetermined antenna length and a predetermined antenna width, the dipole antenna being arranged on a surface of the substrate; an IC chip connected to the dipole antenna; and a separator temporarily adhered to an adhesive agent overlaid on the surface of the substrate on which the dipole antenna is arranged, wherein a tear off line cuts through the substrate and the dipole antenna, in at least a part of the dipole antenna, so as to extend along an antenna length direction and so as to be superimposed with the part of the dipole antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Rodly Escaro
  • Patent number: 11915080
    Abstract: An adjustable and repositionable RFID inlay is described herein. The RFID inlay comprises: a) a substrate having a first side and a second side; b) an antenna at least partially disposed on the first side of the substrate, and c) an RFID chip at least partially disposed on the first side of the substrate; wherein a first adhesive is at least partially disposed on the RFID inlay; and wherein a second adhesive is at least partially disposed on the RFID inlay. The second adhesive is an activatable adhesive. Also described herein is a method of positioning an RFID inlay with a first adhesive and a second adhesive where the second adhesive is an activatable adhesive. The method may further comprise repositioning the RFID inlay prior to activating the second adhesive to at least partially affix the RFID inlay to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Mathieu De Backer
  • Patent number: 11875213
    Abstract: An RFID tag includes a circuit board, an RFID IC and a functional module. The circuit board has an antenna conductor. The RFID IC is mounted on the circuit board. The functional module is connected to the circuit board through a lead wire. An electrical length of a connection wiring that electrically connects the functional module to an element on the circuit board is within ±10% of an integral multiple of a half wavelength of a radio signal that the RFID IC transmits or receives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Ko Chishiki, Noritaka Niino
  • Patent number: 11853954
    Abstract: Systems and methods for remotely controlling an article based on authentication of the article. A communication system with a sensor for detecting an interaction event can be coupled to an article. The communication system can be associated with an article identifier. A communication including the article identifier can be received and the identification of the article through the article identifier can be authenticated based on an association of the article identifier with the communication system to verify that the communication is generated in response to the interaction event occurring at the article and being detected by the sensor of the communication system. As follows, operation of the article can be remotely controlled based on whether the article is authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: InstrumentMail, LLC
    Inventors: Vimal Bhalodia, Robb Walters, Stuart Alexander Jacobson
  • Patent number: 11843450
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a full-duplex backscatter system. An example method includes outputting, via a transmitter of the backscatter system, a single tone carrier for transmission via an antenna of the backscatter system. A tunable impedance network is tuned via a microcontroller to reduce self-interference associated with the signal tone carrier by at least a threshold level, with the tunable impedance network including passive elements which are configured to be tuned, and with the self-interference reduction by the threshold level being in the analog domain. Backscatter data packets are received via a receiver from backscatter tags, with the backscatter data packets being associated with an offset frequency and are decoded by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Jeeva Wireless Inc.
    Inventors: Vamsi Talla, Mohamad Katanbaf, Anthony Weinand, Jonathan Hamberg
  • Patent number: 11824599
    Abstract: A contactless communication method comprises retro-modulation of a carrier signal received at the terminals of an antenna in an alternation of modulated states and unmodulated states. The modulated state comprises a modulation of a load at the terminals of the antenna at zero impedance, and the transitions from the modulated state to the unmodulated state are controlled at an instant determined by a first delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventor: Julien Goulier
  • Patent number: 11822996
    Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive door position information that indicates a position of a door of a room. The system may receive, in association with a read operation of an RFID reader, first tag information associated with a first RFID tag, wherein the first tag information is received via a first antenna of the RFID reader, and wherein the RFID reader is disposed within the room and a first directional range of the first antenna is directed toward the door. The system may determine, based on the first tag information being received via the first antenna, a location status of the first RFID tag according to the door position information. The system may perform, based on the location status, an action associated with indicating a location of the first RFID tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy B. Austin
  • Patent number: 11791546
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna device including an antenna substrate in which an array antenna comprising at least one radiation element is disposed, and a cover separated by a predetermined distance or more from the antenna substrate and comprising at least one repeating radiation element disposed to correspond to the at least one radiation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Dohyuk Ha, Junsig Kum, Jungyub Lee, Youngju Lee
  • Patent number: 11764473
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a substrate and a loop antenna formed using the substrate. The loop antenna includes a set of gaps formed to isolate a first part of the loop antenna from a second part of the loop antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Zolomy, Thomas E. Voor, Zoltan Vida
  • Patent number: 11734644
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for preparing a node-enabled shipment of an item to be shipped using a wireless node network having at least a node and a server. A user access device, such as a laptop computer, smartphone, or tablet, may capture an identification of the node to be related to the item. The user access device enters shipping information related to the item and linked with an identification of the node. The shipping information is stored on the node, and then the node is combined with the item to be shipped. A system may include a node and a server, where the node is specially-adapted via programming to emit the identification of the node to the user access device, receive shipping information from the device, store the shipping information on the node, and then upload the shipping information to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud
  • Patent number: 11721192
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting, monitoring or measuring chemical concentrations in products intended for consumption or the environment of products intended for consumption throughout the supply chain, beginning with producers, processors, packagers, transporters, distributors and ending with retailers and consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Hummer, Gregory J. Hummer
  • Patent number: 11658517
    Abstract: An antenna for wireless power transfer includes a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion. The first antenna portion includes a first antenna terminal, a second antenna terminal, at least one first inner turn, at least one first outer turn, and a first wire crossover electrically connecting the at least one first inner turn with the at least one second outer turn. The antenna further includes a second antenna portion including a third antenna terminal, a fourth antenna terminal, at least one second inner turn, at least one second outer turn, and a second wire crossover electrically connecting the at least one second inner turn with the at least one second outer turn. The second antenna terminal is in electrical connection with the third antenna terminal and the first antenna terminal and fourth antenna terminal are configured for electrical connection with a transmitter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NUCURRENT, INC.
    Inventors: Md. Nazmul Alam, Alberto Peralta
  • Patent number: 11645491
    Abstract: An assembly and method of manufacture of a radio frequency identification (RFID) assembly having a passive RFID semiconductor chip and a two sided planar antenna and a spacer composed of an electrically non-conducting foam material that is configured for non-absorbing of a substantial amount of energy at the predetermined operating frequency, the spacer having a predetermined thickness and that is configured for non-absorbing of a substantial amount of radio frequency energy at the predetermined operating frequency wherein the RFID tag assembly is configured to receive at a first side of the two sided planar antenna a first portion of the radio frequency energy as direct energy and is configured to receive at a second side of the planar antenna a second portion of the radio frequency energy as indirect energy responsive to the absorbing by the absorbing material body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Innovative Timing Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Kurt S. Hansen
  • Patent number: 11645490
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing radio frequency identification devices (RFID) without personalized chip, in particular the production of RFID tags without personalized chip, also referred to as chipless RFID tags. The present invention also relates to devices and labels produced by the claimed method as well as to systems for producing said devices/labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: MGI DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, INKJET ENGINE TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Edmond Abergel, Louis Gautier Le Boulch
  • Patent number: 11636461
    Abstract: A secure arrangement for performing secure contactless payments includes an external contactless card reader comprising a short-distance communication antenna. The secure arrangement comprises a card reader terminal comprising a secure controller configured for performing financial transactions, wherein the secure controller is located in a secure area within the card reader terminal, an external contactless card reader comprising a short-distance communication antenna configured for converting an electromagnetic signal comprising card data, received from a contactless payment card, into an analogue signal and a feed line configured for transferring the analogue signal between the external contactless card reader and the card reader terminal. The secure area in the card reader terminal comprises an A/D converter for digitizing the analogue signal to a digital signal that can be processed by the secure controller, within the secure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Bernholc
  • Patent number: 11625568
    Abstract: The invention discloses a flexible mountable RFID tag antenna. The object of the invention to present an RFID tag antenna which has a flexible and flat design, which is mountable on conductive surfaces without disadvantages in reading the data of the RFID chip and does not increase cost and complexity in the RFID tag manufacturing process and which can be mounted on any curvature structure will be solved by a flexible mountable RFID tag antenna comprising an RFID chip for storing data and an antenna structure operatively connected to the RFID chip for operating across RFID frequency band, wherein the RFID tag antenna is mounted on a dielectric layer and the RFID tag antenna laterally overlaps the dielectric layer at one edge of the dielectric layer forming an overlapping part, whereas the overlapping part of the RFID tag antenna forming an extended L-shaped antenna structure in its cross-sectional view and whereas the RFID tag antenna is suitable to be attachable to a conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventors: Kunalen Thirappa, Fwee Leong Bong, Roslan Abdul Rahman
  • Patent number: 11616286
    Abstract: An RFID-enabled storage container and systems and methods for assembly and use thereof. The RFID-enabled storage container may include adjustable shelving with built-in antennas, such that the shelving may be customized as may be needed. The system may include a storage container, an inventory management system, and one or more point of use terminals. The storage container may identify and check inventory stored thereon, and provide such information to the inventory management system. The storage container may notify the inventory management system when a product is no longer detected within its inventory, and the inventory management system may monitor the one or more point of use terminals to determine if the undetected product has been used at one of the point of use terminals. The inventory management system may also predict inventory needs as well as maintain age and other data for inventory and provide feedback via an illumination indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: WAVEMARK, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Eugene Leitermann, Graham Davies, Leo Kiefer, Lars Rohrberg, Brent Everett Koeppel
  • Patent number: 11600923
    Abstract: Apparatus, system and method to provide switchable coils in a computing device, comprising: a plurality of electrically conductive coils to transfer electromagnetic energy; a sensor coupled to a processor, to select a coil from among the plurality of electrically conductive coils; a switch to energize the selected coil; and a switch controller coupled to the switch and to the processor. In some embodiments, the plurality of coils may comprise an inductive charging interface. Some embodiments may further include a communication interface between the processor to the plurality of electrically conductive coils, the plurality of coils comprising an interface for near-field communications (NFC). The antenna coils may be arranged to provide improved NFC coverage when the computing device is in a respective predetermined physical configuration. Sensors may be used to detect the configuration and switch NFC communications to use a preferred antenna coil for the detected configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anand S. Konanur, Songnan Yang, Ulun Karacaoglu, Jiancheng Tao, Farid Adrangi
  • Patent number: 11580348
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to networking infrastructure and, more particularly, to installing transient infrastructure for ubiquitous networking applications. A wireless gateway device is sent to physical premises with a parcel. After the wireless gateway device is delivered to the physical premises, a processor of the wireless gateway device draws power from the energy source to perform operations comprising executing program code stored in non-transitory processor-readable medium to establish a wireless communications connection with a network service through a first type of wireless communications interface. The wireless gateway device performs operations comprising establishing wireless communications with one or more wireless peripheral devices in the physical premises through the second type of wireless communications interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hendrik J Volkerink, Ajay Khoche
  • Patent number: 11544484
    Abstract: An in-transit identification system for an overhead conveyor that transports items equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags uses a guide track arrangement and an antenna frame movably connected thereto. An RFID antenna is mounted to the frame and a bidirectional translation mechanism moves the frame relative to the guide track arrangement along a first direction parallel to a transport path of the conveyor and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A controller controls the translation mechanism to move the frame along the second direction to locate the antenna in the transport path adjacent to a first item being transported, along the first direction to maintain the antenna adjacent to said first item while an RFID tag of said first item is interrogated by the antenna and again along the second direction to withdraw the antenna from the transport path after interrogation of the RFID tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Gabriel St-Jean, Dany Bouchard, Dominic Gosselin, Christophe Boisclair, Francis Fortier, Charles D'Amours-Lavoie
  • Patent number: 11537836
    Abstract: A merchandise attachment incorporating an RFID transponder may be described herein. The merchandise attachment may include a pliable, elongated panel member adapted for wrapping around the neck of a bottle or similar container. The panel member may be formed from a unitary blank having score lines that divide the blank into a plurality of panel sections. The panel member, when folded along the score lines with its end sections in overlapping relationship, may form a packaging sleeve in the shape of a tapered rectangular prism. The exterior surface of the panel member may be provided with informational material regarding the merchandise, such as branding, promotional offers, and the like. The RFID transponder, affixed to an interior surface of the panel member, may be adapted for wirelessly communicating information in radio-frequency signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 11527138
    Abstract: A dual hard tag assembly comprises radio frequency identification and electronic article surveillance. The dual hard tag is provides a single component able to both track retail merchandise generally and prevent theft by triggering an alarm. The RFID and EAS systems are not coplanar. The dual hard tag system is small and light weight, and may be reprogrammed and reused for the tracking and anti-theft of multiple items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Weakley, Morui Li
  • Patent number: 11513743
    Abstract: A server, which is capable of communicating with a printer or printers, each performing radio frequency identification (RFID) communication with a RFID tag, contains: a record unit configured to record, in a memory device, printer identification information for identifying a printer, tag identification information for identifying a RFID tag, and communication parameters with which the printer performs RFID communication, in an associated manner; a first obtaining unit configured to obtain, from a printer, printer identification information and tag identification information read by the printer; an identifying unit configured to identify communication parameters associated with the printer identification information and the tag identification information obtained by the first obtaining unit; and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the communication parameters identified by the identifying unit, to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kumabayashi
  • Patent number: 11507048
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for a detector and reflector for automation cell safety and identification are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a method for machinery safety comprises transmitting, by an active transponder, at least one interrogation signal. The method further comprises receiving, by at least one passive transponder located on a user or on an item, the interrogation signal(s). Also, the method comprises generating, by a non-linear device of the passive transponder(s) in response to the interrogation signal(s), at least one response signal. In addition, the method comprises receiving, by the active transponder, the response signal(s). Additionally, the method comprises determining, by at least one processor, a location of the passive transponder(s) based on the response signal(s). Further, the method comprises determining, by the processor(s), whether the passive transponder(s) is located within a threshold distance away from machinery by using the location of the passive transponder(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kwok Tung Chan, Tanni Sisco, Mark Albrecht
  • Patent number: 11461569
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) apparatus includes a housing, an RFID reader, and one or more RFID antennas disposed in the housing. The housing includes a first opening, a second opening, and a tunnel between the first and second openings. The housing is configured to be disposed over a track configured to transport a garment on hanger through the tunnel. The RFID antennas are configured to generate a first RFID signal substantially in the tunnel to interrogate an RFID tag associated with a garment on hanger as it transits through the tunnel. The RFID reader receives a second RFID signal transmitted by the RFID tag in response to receiving the first RFID signal. The RFID apparatus can include a segment of the track. The track can include a trolley configured to secure one or more garments on hangers. The trolley can include an RFID tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Mark W. Roth
  • Patent number: 11447896
    Abstract: One variation of a method for producing a smart yarn includes: aligning a set of sensing elements offset along a lateral axis in a magazine, wherein each sensing element in the set of sensing elements includes a sensor, a first conductive lead extending from a first side of the sensor along a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the lateral axis, and a second conductive lead extending from a second side of the sensor opposite the first side and along the longitudinal axis; wrapping a set of fibers into a yarn within a wrapping field; feeding a leading end of a first sensing element, in the set of sensing elements, from the magazine into the wrapping field; releasing the first sensing element from the magazine into the wrapping field; encasing the first sensing element between the set of fibers within the yarn; and repeating this process for the set of sensing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Siren Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Fu, Ran Ma, Henk Jan Scholten
  • Patent number: 11444372
    Abstract: An antenna includes a first feeding portion, a second feeding portion, and a loop element including a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the first feeding portion, and the second end being connected to the second feeding portion, wherein the loop element has a first element portion and a second element portion, which appear to face each other in a vertical direction in an elevation view as seen in a direction parallel with a horizontal plane, and wherein a first gap is provided in a middle of the first element portion, and a second gap is provided in a middle of the second element portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventor: Toshiki Sayama
  • Patent number: 11442448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing an alarm about a positioning fault in a self-moving device. A self-moving device is configured to autonomously move, based on positioning of the self-moving device, inside a working region defined on a map. The method includes: receiving positioning data from a satellite positioning system to locate the self-moving device; detecting whether a positioning fault occurs in the self-moving device; and in response to a detected positioning fault that occurs in the self-moving device, providing an alarm about the positioning fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingming He, Yong Shao, Chang Zhou, Yiyun Tan, Fangshi Liu, Shiping Jiao
  • Patent number: 11436464
    Abstract: An IC tag according to the present invention includes: a sheet-shaped tag main body having an outer shape that extends in a lengthwise direction and a widthwise direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction; and a reinforcing member that is arranged along the widthwise direction so as to cover a surrounding area of the tag main body. The tag main body includes: an IC chip; an antenna configured to electrically transmit and receive information stored in the IC chip; and a sheet-shaped substrate that supports the IC chip and the antenna. The reinforcing member is made of a material having a Shore D hardness that is less than or equal to a Shore D hardness of the substrate, and is arranged so as to cover at least the IC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NITTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu Shimai, Hirofumi Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 11436468
    Abstract: An assembly and method of manufacture of a radio frequency identification (RFID) assembly having a passive RFID semiconductor chip and a two sided planar antenna and a spacer composed of an electrically non-conducting foam material that is configured for non-absorbing of a substantial amount of energy at the predetermined operating frequency, the spacer having a predetermined thickness and that is configured for non-absorbing of a substantial amount of radio frequency energy at the predetermined operating frequency wherein the RFID tag assembly is configured to receive at a first side of the two sided planar antenna a first portion of the radio frequency energy as direct energy and is configured to receive at a second side of the planar antenna a second portion of the radio frequency energy as indirect energy responsive to the absorbing by the absorbing material body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Innovative Timing Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Kurt S. Hansen
  • Patent number: 11429831
    Abstract: An RFID reader, tuning method and computer readable medium. A carrier signal is transmitted. A plurality of feedback signals produced in the RFID reader are measured when transmitting the carrier signal with a variable matching network set at a plurality of impedance values that are different from one another. It is determined which impedance value of the plurality of impedance values produced a feedback signal having a highest level of the plurality of feedback signals. The variable matching network is set to the determined impedance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: RF IDEAS, INC.
    Inventors: John C. Butera, Rajani Pidaparti
  • Patent number: 11380996
    Abstract: An RFID tag is provided as a wireless communication device for transmitting and receiving a communication signal. The RFID tag includes a base material, antenna patterns formed on the base material, and an RFIC package that is a feeder circuit connected to the antenna patterns. In the antenna patterns, a line width at a harmonic current concentration portion where a current is strong at a frequency of harmonic resonance higher than a resonance frequency at a frequency of the communication signal is narrower than a line width at another portion of the antenna pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Ueki
  • Patent number: 11380180
    Abstract: The invention provides a notification apparatus 1 including an alarm sound generating unit 2 for generating alarm sounds, a location information obtaining unit 3 for obtaining location information, an activating unit 4 for activating the alarm sound generating unit 2 and the location information obtaining unit 3, a communication unit 5 for performing low-power wide-area wireless communication, and a control unit 6 for transmitting notification information via the communication unit 5 if the control unit 6 fails to obtain the location information from the location information obtaining unit 3 after the activating unit 4 activated the alarm sound generating unit 2, the notification information including notification apparatus identifying information identifying the notification apparatus a and notification occurrence information indicative of occurrence of notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Iida
  • Patent number: 11366996
    Abstract: A liquid lens includes a substrate, an anti-reflection (AR) coating, and a chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The substrate includes central and peripheral portions. The AR coating is disposed on the substrate. The chipless RFID tag is disposed in the peripheral portion to uniquely identify the liquid lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Andrew Wesley Johnson
  • Patent number: 11346914
    Abstract: An RFID system includes multiple antennas and uses amplitude and phase information of the RFID signals received by each antenna to determine the position of RFID tags in the vicinity. More than one antenna can receive the RFID signals during a single read cycle, enabling the RFID system to operate more quickly than a system that energizes antennas separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: FORTISS, LLC.
    Inventors: Forrest S. Seitz, Joshua K. Hoyt, Bartley A. Johnson, Tyler J. Seitz
  • Patent number: 11334783
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assembling an RFID device mounted to a fabric substrate via a “flip chip” approach. The system includes a pin thermode with a tip configured to penetrate the fabric substrate. The pin thermode may include or omit a heating element, with the tip being variously configured. The tip may have a variable cross-sectional area or include a plurality of projections that separately penetrate the fabric substrate, for example. If the pin thermode includes a heating element, a body of the pin thermode may be formed of a low thermal conductivity material to allow the temperature of the tip to increase without increasing the temperature of the body to the same degree. The body may define a lumen, with the tip and/or body defining an aperture for flowing a liquid out of the pin thermode and into the region surrounding the pin thermode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLC.
    Inventor: Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 11316271
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a multi-mode antenna are described. The antenna is preferably constructed having a first inductor coil and a second inductor coil. A plurality of shielding materials are positioned throughout the antenna to minimize interference of the magnetic fields that emanate from the coils from surrounding materials. The antenna comprises a coil control circuit having at least one of an electric filter and an electrical switch configured to modify the electrical impedance of either or both the first and second coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinit Singh, Ajit Rajagopalan, Alberto Peralta, Md. Nazmul Alam, Christine A. Frysz, Jason Luzinski, Glenn Riese, Jacob Babcock, Pavel Shostak
  • Patent number: 11283295
    Abstract: Various embodiments of inductor coils, antennas, and transmission bases configured for wireless electrical energy transmission are provided. These embodiments are configured to wirelessly transmit or receive electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling. The embodiments of inductor coils comprise a figure eight configuration that improve efficiency of wireless transmission efficiency. The embodiments of the transmission base are configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device in contact with or adjacent to the transmission base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Luzinski, Md. Nazmul Alam
  • Patent number: 11277676
    Abstract: A system of a machine includes a network of nodes distributed throughout the machine. Each of the nodes is operable to communicate through electromagnetic signals. The system also includes a radio frequency transceiver, a first antenna coupled to the radio frequency transceiver, a second antenna coupled to one or more sensor nodes, and a controller coupled to the radio frequency transceiver. The controller is configured to select at least one sensor node to interrogate, transmit one or more interrogation frequencies from the radio frequency transceiver through the first antenna to the second antenna, receive one or more sensor frequencies at the first antenna broadcast from the second antenna based on a frequency response of the at least one sensor node to the one or more interrogation frequencies, and determine one or more sensed values based on the sensor frequencies received at the radio frequency transceiver through the first antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Gilson, Joseph V. Mantese, Goran Djuknic, Gurkan Gok, Brenda J. Lisitano, Coy Bruce Wood, Sanjay Bajekal
  • Patent number: 11270957
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate of an integrated circuit is protected by a coating. The semiconductor includes a front face and a rear face. To detect a breach of the integrity of a semiconductor substrate of an integrated circuit from the rear face, an opening of the coating facing the rear face of the substrate is detected. In response thereto, an alarm is generated. The detection is performed by making resistance measurements with respect to the semiconductor substrate and comparing the measured resistance to a nominal resistive value of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
    Inventors: Alexandre Sarafianos, Bruno Nicolas, Daniele Fronte
  • Patent number: 11254472
    Abstract: The technology relates to a cap 1 having a head 4 and a skirt 7 with a circumferential opening area 20 characterized in that the cap 1 may include a transponder 10 including and antenna circuit 14 and a leg circuit 17 the leg circuit 17 extending to the skirt 7 and being non-releasably affixed to the opening area 20, whereby the leg circuit 17 is breakable by disruption of the opening area 20. The transponder 10 stores and is able to transmit information on the integrity of the cap 1 to a reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Johann Paintendre
  • Patent number: 11238434
    Abstract: A peripheral device intended to be coupled in a mobile and removable manner to an electronic payment terminal having contactless communication. The peripheral device includes at least one first portion of a contactless communication of the electronic payment terminal and at least one connector that cooperates, when the peripheral device is coupled to the electronic payment terminal, with at least one complementary connector on the electronic payment terminal. The connectors form a wireline communication between the first portion of the contactless communication of the peripheral device and the electronic payment terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: INGENICO INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Rotsaert
  • Patent number: 11231445
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor chip including: a board; a three-dimensional object provided on the board, the three-dimensional object being a cuboid or a cube having a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface and including an insulating material; a first coil provided on the first surface; a second coil provided on the second surface, the second coil being electrically connected to the first coil; and a magnetic measurement element provided in the three-dimensional object. Directions of magnetic fields generated in the first coil and the second coil by current for electrically conducting the first coil and the second coil are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jia Liu
  • Patent number: 11220769
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for labeling a piece of merchandise with a wireless communication device. In addition to a wireless communication device, the merchandise tag includes an associated label made of a washable fabric material. The wireless communication device is incorporated into the label and includes an RFID chip and a slot-loop hybrid antenna, with the antenna including a conductor sheet that defines a slot. The label is secured to a piece of merchandise at a sew line, with the sew line dividing the label into an upper portion and a lower portion. The RFID chip and the slot of the antenna, along with a relatively high conductance piece or portion of the conductor sheet, are positioned within the upper portion of the label, while a relatively low conductance piece or portion of the conductor sheet is positioned within the lower portion of the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 11171729
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tag apparatus for attaching things based on human body communication, including: a tag main body for human body communication configured to be attached to a thing to transmit identification information on a thing to a human body communication receiving device through human body communication during the contact of the human body with the thing; a case configured to protect the tag main body for human body communication; and a thing attachment portion configured to be exposed to an outside of the case to be attached to a particular part of the thing, detect when the human body contacts or approaches the thing, and forms a human body communication channel to output identification information on the thing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: DNX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun Kyeong Kwon
  • Patent number: 11167603
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire pressure sensor, including a housing, a PCBA installed within the housing, a power supply device installed within the housing and electrically connected to the PCBA, and an antenna connected to the PCBA. The antenna is wrapped around the PCBA, and at least one turn of the antenna is wrapped around the PCBA. An effective space of the antenna may be particularly enlarged by wrapping the antenna around the PCBA, thereby improving efficiency of the antenna, increasing a signal transmitting distance of the antenna, and enhancing signal transmission stability and anti-interference capability of the antenna, so that an automobile receiver can stably receive, in real time, information such as internal pressure and a temperature of the tire detected by the PCBA, better implementing real-time monitoring of the air pressure, the temperature, and the like within the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: AUTEL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Longxue Qiu