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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Mojix, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ramin Sadr, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Andreas Mantik Ali, Walnut, CA (US);

Andres I. Vila Casado, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Christopher Jones, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);

Assignee:

Mojix, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 5/22 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G01S 13/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/75 (2006.01); G01S 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10356 (2013.01); G01S 13/00 (2013.01); G01S 13/75 (2013.01); G06K 7/10099 (2013.01); G01S 2013/0245 (2013.01);
Abstract

RFID systems for locating RFID tags utilizing phased array antennas and compressed sensing processing techniques in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an RFID system includes at least one exciter that includes at least one transmit antenna, a phased antenna array that includes a plurality of receive antennas, and an RFID receiver system configured to communicate with the at least one exciter and connected to the phased antenna array, where the RFID receiver system is configured to locate an RFID tag by performing reads of the RFD tag at multiple frequencies, generating a measurement matrix, and determining a line of sight (LOS) distance between the activated RFID tag and each of the plurality of receive antennas by eliminating bases from the measurement matrix.


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