ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,236, issued on July 15, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"RFID read zone mapping, testing, and monitoring using a silent RFID tag" was invented by Robert Keith Butler (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a central processing unit (CPU); a non-transitory memory; and an RFID application stored on the non-transitory memory and comprising executable instructions that when executed by the CPU, cause the communication device to be configured to provide the communication device in an environment; receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from an RFID reader at a plura...