US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 4 for "System for transmitting object related data from a base unit to a mobile unit through a person's body" (Romanian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,678, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System for transmitting object related data from a base unit to a mobile unit through a person's body" was invented by Valentin Stoia (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a base unit associated with an object, and a mobile unit carriable by a person. The base unit includes a base unit capacitive coupling element providing a base unit-human capacitive coupling between the base unit and the person, and the mobile unit includes a mobile unit capacitive coupling element providing a mobile unit-human capacitive coupling be...