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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2021
Applicant:
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Mohammad Khojastepour, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Mustafa Arslan, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 5/22 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 19/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10356 (2013.01); G06K 7/10029 (2013.01); G06K 7/10405 (2013.01); G06K 19/0723 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for employing cycle counting is presented. The method includes interrogating, by an RFID reader, RFID tags by using a plurality of antenna ports, determining, by an activation sequencer, an activation sequence of the plurality of antenna ports that have been enabled, collecting RFID tag responses from each of the RFID tags, and matching one or more of the RFID tag responses to a particular antenna port of the plurality of antenna ports in an activation cycle.