ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,267, issued on June 24.
"Session control broadcaster for zoned RFID systems" was invented by Bruce Walter Wilkinson (Rogers, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for radio-frequency identification (RFID) are disclosed where session control tasks are offloaded from a plurality of zoned RFID readers to a separate device which can take the form of an RFID transmitter such as a session control broadcaster. Accordingly, the RFID transmitter transmits messages to RFID tags to control which of the RFID tags within range of the RFID transmitter are in a readable state and/or unreadable state. These messages can take the fo...