ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,037, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA (Zaventem, Belgium).
"RFID sensor device with patch-type antenna for tires" was invented by Maria Cristina Caccami (Rome), Gaetano Marrocco (Rome), Cecilia Occhiuzzi (Rome), Sara Amendola (Rome) and Nicola D'Uva (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns an RFID sensor device (1, 2, 3) for tires, designed to be embedded/integrated, at least partially, in/into, or applied to, a tire (4) and comprising a patch-type antenna that includes a multilayer structure comprising: a bottom ground plane (10, 20, 30); an intermediate dielectric substrate (11, 21, 31)...