US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on May 27 for "Position independent and long read range resonant sensor" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,581, issued on May 27, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Position independent and long read range resonant sensor" was invented by Yee Jher Chan (Ames, Iowa), Adam Russell Carr (Ames, Iowa) and Nigel Forest Reuel (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive-capacitive resonant sensor architecture includes an inductively-coupled extender (ICE) that can both increase read range and lessen the effects of reader/sensor misalignment. The ICE can include a first coil configured with respect to a resonant sensor and a second coil separated from the first coil and coupled to the first co...