US Patent Issued to Impinj on Oct. 28 for "RFID tag location using inventory cycles and illumination adjustment" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,023, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Impinj Inc. (Seattle).

"RFID tag location using inventory cycles and illumination adjustment" was invented by Alberto Pesavento (Seattle), Thomas G. Anderl (Seattle) and Robert J. Ascani (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to estimate the location of an RFID tag using tag read information, such as a tag read count or a tag read rate, and an opportunity metric, such as an inventory cycle duration, inventory cycle rate, or inventory cycle count. A tag tracking system determines read information for a tag in a zone and an opportunity metric associated with the tag and t...