ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,616, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SATO HOLDINGS K.K. (Tokyo).
"Antenna assembly" was invented by Graham Murdoch (St Peters, Australia) and Ganesh Nagendra (St Peters, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RFID read antenna assembly (100) for use on a metal substrate (20) is used to read an RFID tag (22) carried by an article (12) positioned relative to the metal substrate. The antenna assembly comprises a high permeability layer (104) mountable to the metal substrate, an elongate carrier (114) mounted to the high permeability layer and defining a longitudinal axis (106), and at least one antenna coil (102) carried by the ...