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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:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2008
Applicant:
Graham P. Bloy, St. Louis, MO (US);
Inventor:
Graham P. Bloy, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
RF Controls, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 5/22 (2006.01); G08B 13/14 (2006.01); G06K 7/08 (2006.01); H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/06 (2006.01); H01Q 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for and method of tracking and locating RFID tags, including where at least one steerable phase array antenna may locate the tags associated with items in three dimensions in real time, through the use of a beam steering unit and controller therewith to control the direction of a beam launched by the at least one steerable phase array antenna.