US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on July 1 for "Method of near field communication control based on communication time" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,032, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Method of near field communication control based on communication time" was invented by Michael Robustelli (Smithtown, N.Y.), Joseph Cabana (Centereach, N.Y.) and Marek Trusinski (Kings Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computer system may initiate a method comprising: the method comprising: initiating communication between a tag and a reader; initiating a first program; determining a communication time period by starting a timer when the tag and the reader are within a communication range and stopping the timer wh...