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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
The United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (US);
Patrick W. Fink, Missouri City, TX (US);
Andrew W. Chu, Houston, TX (US);
Gregory Y. Lin, Friendswood, TX (US);
Timothy F. Kennedy, Houston, TX (US);
Phong H. Ngo, Friendswood, TX (US);
Dewey T. Brown, League City, TX (US);
Diane Byerly, Seabrook, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for radio frequency identification (RFID) includes an enclosure defining an interior region interior to the enclosure, and a feed for generating an electromagnetic field in the interior region in response to a signal received from an RFID reader via a radio frequency (RF) transmission line and, in response to the electromagnetic field, receiving a signal from an RFID sensor attached to an item in the interior region. The structure of the enclosure may be conductive and may include a metamaterial portion, an electromagnetically absorbing portion, or a wall extending in the interior region. Related apparatuses and methods for performing RFID are provided.