ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,357, issued on July 22, was assigned to ROAMBEE Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Activating a smart label via contact" was invented by Pankaj Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vidya Subramanian (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method may include detecting a radio enabled label moving through an area, performing one or more contact operations to the radio enabled label, activating a power source embedded in the radio enabled label responsive to the one or more contact operations, and performing one or more of receiving and transmitting a radio signal via the radio enabled label while the power source is activ...