US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods to co-locate RFID reader networks with in-band sensor networks" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,622, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to co-locate RFID reader networks with in-band sensor networks" was invented by Sean Connolly (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Mark W. Duron (Mastic, N.Y.) and Jimmy Chabra (Massapequa, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to co-locate RFID readers with in-band sensor networks, such as LoRa sensor networks, are disclosed herein. An example arrangement is a co-located device that includes a dual-mode transceiver configured to communicate with targets operating in a first protocol (e.g., RFID) and other targets operating in ...