US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods of power harvesting for an embedded antenna" (Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,734, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Systems and methods of power harvesting for an embedded antenna" was invented by Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.), Harry William Perlow (Palm Harbor, Fla.), Lyle T. Bertz (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Michael Sean Busby (Normandy Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object tracking using sensors that harvest energy from radio frequency (RF) signals described. The sensor may harvest energy from signals absorbed by a metalized layer of a sensor. The energy may energize a microcontroller and facilitate the broadcast of another RF signa...