ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,758, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Adaptive biasing procedure to increase PA efficiency in RFID readers" was invented by Alpaslan Demir (East Meadow, N.Y.), Amit Asthana (Germantown, Md.) and Mark W. Duron (Mastic, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving energy efficiency of a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) reader are described herein. A power control algorithm controlling a power amplifier of the RFID reader adjusts a bias setting of the power amplifier at different time periods during operation of the RFID reader. Particularly, in aspects, the power cont...