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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2005
Applicant:
John Vincent Bellantoni, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventor:
John Vincent Bellantoni, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
WJ Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides sensitivity enhancement for a single antenna RFID interrogating device by separately coupling a nulling signal formed using a portion of a transmit signal into a receiver. The phase and amplitude of nulling signal can be adjusted so that the nulling signal cancels that a reflected transmit signal from the antenna, resulting in the small backscattered signal from the distant RFID tag to be more easily detected, and improving the sensitivity of the RFID receiver.