ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,154, issued on June 10, was assigned to LAPIS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"IC tag and semiconductor device" was invented by Koki Nakanishi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC tag includes: an antenna that receives a modulation signal in which a pause period, during which a carrier wave is interrupted, is intermittently present in a carrier wave signal; a clock signal extraction circuit that extracts, as a clock signal from the modulation signal received by antenna, a signal attained by binarizing the carrier wave included in the signal; a demodulation circuit that detects the received modulation signal to...