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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2023
Applicant:
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA, Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06K 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06K 7/0008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are set forth for reading RFID tags through a medium, comprising positioning a plurality of interrogator rings in relation to the medium, each interrogator ring having a field controller connected to a plurality of antenna modules, wherein each of the antenna modules is positioned over a respective RFID tag, and connecting the host device and plurality of interrogator rings in a node-gateway configuration over a serial bus to enable the host device to communicate with and provide power to each field controller for interrogating the RFID tags via the plurality of antenna modules.