ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,164, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to EPIC SEMICONDUCTORS INC.
"Smartdust chip" was invented by Wolfgang Richter (Vancouver, Canada) and Faranak Zadeh (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a SmartDust system for contactless digital controlled serialized analog processing of analog values received from an object. The SmartDust system includes a hub unit and at least one electronic circuitry capacitive coupled to the hub unit. The hub unit includes an oscillator for generating a frequency, and a first electrode connected to the oscillator to emit the frequency as an alternating electric field. The electronic ...