ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,836, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for wireless detection of radio frequency identification devices" was invented by Igor Kolych (Lviv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices detect radio frequency identification devices. Methods include transmitting a signal from a transmitter of a wireless device compatible with a wireless communications protocol, and receiving, using a receiver of the wireless device, a signal from a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, the signal comprising one or more resonance parameters....