US Patent Issued to Amtech Systems on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle tracking system for congestion pricing using transponders" (California, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,285, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amtech Systems LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Vehicle tracking system for congestion pricing using transponders" was invented by Kelly Gravelle (Poway, Calif.), Yousuf Kamal (Albuquerque, N.M.), Greg Lantz (Albuquerque, N.M.), Paul Hamel (Albuquerque, N.M.), Dale Scott (Albuquerque, N.M.), Duane Wrasman (Albuquerque, N.M.), Donald Brady (Henderson, Nev.), Scott Brosi (Dallas) and Alice Klemashevich (Highland Village, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RFID transponder including a Bluetooth(R) compatible transceiver (BLEET) is described. The Bluetooth(R) compatible transceiver may be configured to...