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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2016
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Alexander Mueggenborg, Arlington, VA (US);
Edward A. Richley, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Aitan Ameti, Rockville, MD (US);
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for reference regeneration in real time location systems are disclosed. An example disclosed method includes obtaining reference phase offsets from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) receivers; transmitting a first synchronization signal via a wireline link to obtain differential wireline coarse sync measurements; determining a residual offset table based at least in part on the differential wireline coarse sync measurements and the reference phase offsets; transmitting a second synchronization signal via the wireline link to obtain revised differential wireline coarse sync measurements; generating revised reference phase offsets by combining the revised differential wireline coarse sync offsets with the residual offset table; and determining a physical location of a RFID tag based at least in part on i) the revised reference phase offsets and ii) RFID receiver clock measurements corresponding to a time-of-arrival of over-the-air data transmitted from the RFID tag.