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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2017
Applicant:

Rfmicron, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Shahriar Rokhsaz, Austin, TX (US);

Greg Pitner, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

RFMicron, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03J 3/22 (2006.01); H03H 7/40 (2006.01); H03J 3/20 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 19/07 (2006.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 1/36 (2006.01); H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 7/00 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H01Q 9/28 (2006.01); H01Q 13/10 (2006.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03J 3/22 (2013.01); G06K 7/10148 (2013.01); G06K 7/10336 (2013.01); G06K 19/0717 (2013.01); G06K 19/0723 (2013.01); H01Q 1/2225 (2013.01); H01Q 1/36 (2013.01); H01Q 1/38 (2013.01); H01Q 7/005 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0407 (2013.01); H01Q 9/285 (2013.01); H01Q 13/106 (2013.01); H03H 7/40 (2013.01); H03J 3/20 (2013.01); H04B 5/0062 (2013.01); H04B 5/0081 (2013.01); H03J 2200/10 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method includes receiving a series of radio frequency (RF) signals, where, from RF signal to RF signal of the series of RF signals, a carrier frequency is changed in accordance with a frequency hopping pattern. The method further includes, while receiving the series of RF signals, sensing an environmental condition by, for a frequency hop of at least some frequency hops of the frequency hopping pattern, adjusting a characteristic of a wireless sensor to maintain proximal alignment of a resonant frequency of the wireless sensor with the carrier frequency corresponding to a present frequency of the at least some frequency hops and generating a value to represent the adjustment of the characteristic, where a set of values is generated for the at least some frequency hops and where the set of values is used to determine a sensed value of the environmental condition.


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