ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,130, issued on April 29, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Full-duplex contactless connectors" was invented by Sai-Wang Tam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aristotele Hadjichristos (San Diego), Steven Daniel (Gilbert, Ariz.), Krishnan Tiruchi Natarajan (Cupertino, Calif.) and John Quigley (Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a contactless connector that includes an antenna system and a wireless transceiver coupled to the antenna system and configured to simultaneously transmit a transmission signal and receive a received signal through the antenna system. The wireless transceiver includes a transf...