US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on July 8 for "RFID tag communication device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,942, issued on July 8, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"RFID tag communication device" was invented by Sunao Tsuchida (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan) and Sadatoshi Oishi (Fuji Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a wireless tag communication device includes a first antenna that emits radio waves towards a first region of a conveyance path for wireless tags and a second antenna that emits radio waves towards a second region of the conveyance path on downstream of the first region along the conveyance path. A shield prevents the radio waves emitted from the first antenna from reaching a first po...