ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,611, issued on March 11, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Positioning guidance for RFID devices" was invented by Markus Wobak (Graz, Austria), Thomas Spiss (Sankt Radegund, Austria) and Abu Syed Firoz Ismail (Rellingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for guiding a user for positioning a first RFID-enabled device relative to a second RFID-enabled device for allowing a robust RFID communication between the two RFID-enabled devices. The method includes placing the first RFID-enabled device to a first position relative to the second RFID-enabled device; receiving, by the first RFID-enable...