US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on May 20 for "Radio-frequency identification (RFID)-enabled connections and localization-assembly and method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,318, issued on May 20, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Radio-frequency identification (RFID)-enabled connections and localization-assembly and method" was invented by Patrick W. Fink (Houston), Gregory Y. Lin (Houston), Phong H. Ngo (Houston) and Lazaro D. Rodriguez (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based method and apparatus, per an implementation, comprises a first electrically-conductive loop and a first RFID integrated circuit (IC) assembly, a second electrically-conductive loop and a second RFID IC assembly, and a re...