Tagging of metal pins for mounted objects with light-activated microtransponders

US9313558B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• PharmaSeq, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Wlodek Mandecki · Edison, US
• Ziye Qian · Hoffman, US
• Richard B. Morris · San Jose, US
• Garry Thomas Jolley-Rogers · North Canberra, AU
• David Keith Yeates · Flynn, AU
• Philip John Suter · Rutherglen, AU
• James Reginald Croft · Campbell, AU
• Edith Margaret Cawsey · North Canberra, AU
• Jeffrey Michael Webb · Guelph, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 22, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 12, 2016
• Expiry date: Oct 22, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04Q2213/13095
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Provided herein, among other things, is an assembly comprising a pin or a piece of jewelry and a transponder affixed thereto. The transponder can be a very small, light-triggered transponder (“MTP”).