ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,799, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE (Grenoble, France), UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin D'Heres, France), UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1 (Villeurbanne, France), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON (Villeurbanne, France), ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON (Ecully, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"RFID reader and associated complementary device" was invented by Smail Tedjini (Beaumont les Valence, France), Dahmane Allane (Valence, France) and Yvan Duroc (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel RFID communication device is proposed which...