Trimble Navigation Limited

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thingmagic, Inc.

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Yael Gregory Maguire

Matthew Stephen Reynolds

Bernd Schoner

Ravikanth Pappu

Sumukh N Pathare

Harry F Tsai

Joseph L Richards

Neil Adam Gershenfeld

A radio device such as a wireless tag reader communicates with multiple types of wireless identification tags in a monitored region. The radio device includes a network interface to receive messages transmitted over a network. In response to receiving a message indicating to reconfigure the radio device to support an additional wireless tag protocol, the radio is reconfigured to support communications with a corresponding new type of wireless identification tag in a monitored region. Based on this technique of reconfiguring the radio device via network messages, the radio device optionally supports additional, new or latest versions of wireless tag protocols without having to physically reprogram or replace the radio device.

Methods and apparatus for operating a radio device

Three-dimensional characterization wherein an object interacts capacitively with a resistive medium and the object's orientation, mass distribution and/or distance from the medium is characterized by electrodes distributed linearly around the medium's perimeter. Thus, three-dimensional characteristics are projected into two dimensions and sensed along a single dimension.

Three-dimensional characterization using a one-dimensional electrode array

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

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