Micron Technology Incorporated

Impinj, Inc.

John Schroeter

Jeremy Chritz

John L Watson

Fa-Long Luo

Jaime Cummins

Tamara Schmitz

David Hulton

Christopher J Diorio

Vincent C Moretti

Brent A Picasso

An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an antenna array configured to detect one or more radio frequency signals from one or more radio emitters and an integrated circuit chip coupled to the array of antennas. The integrated circuit chip comprises a first plurality of processing elements configured to determine a location of the one or more emitters based on the one or more radio frequency signals and a second plurality of processing elements configured to process the location information for communication via a cellular network. The apparatus further includes an antenna coupled to the second plurality of processing elements and configured to communicate the processed location information via a cellular network.

Methods and apparatuses for determining real-time location information of RFID devices

A device comprising a plurality of antennas operable to transmit and receive communication packets via a plurality of communication protocols and an integrated circuit chip coupled to the plurality of antennas. The integrated circuit chip comprises a first and a second plurality of processing elements. The first plurality of processing elements operable to receive communication packets via a first one of a plurality of communication protocols and process an optimal route. The second plurality of processing elements communicatively coupled to the first plurality of processing elements and operable to determine the optimal route to transmit the communication packets from a source device to a destination device based, at least in part, on transmission characteristics associated with at least one of the source or destination devices.

System for optimizing routing of communication between devices and resource reallocation in a network

An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of antennas and an integrated circuit chip coupled to the plurality of antennas, and is configured to process cellular signals received from the plurality of antennas in accordance with a cellular communication protocol and to process radio frequency identification (RFID) signals received from the plurality of antennas in accordance with an RFID protocol.

Methods and apparatuses for processing multiple communications signals with a single integrated circuit chip

Systems, methods of operation, and software are provided, for encoding RFID tags with which a predefined group of items is tagged. Encoding is by writing applicable Electronic Product Codes (EPCs) to the tags, so as to identify the individual items in the group. A base code can be read from each tag, and the applicable EPC is then written to it.

Encoding RFID tags of grouped items

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John Schroeter