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Wireless RFID-based hand sensory apparatus with contextual antenna selection

  • US 10,019,613 B1
  • Filed: 01/10/2017
  • Issued: 07/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system, comprising:

  • a wearable article worn by a user who moves items, each of the items having a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag, and the wearable article is a glove;

    a tracking system implemented in the wearable article, the tracking system comprising;

    a RFID reader designed to interrogate the RFID tags and receive an identification response from each of the RFID tags associated with the respective items;

    an omnidirectional antenna usable by the RFID reader to interrogate the RFID tags of a group of the items;

    a narrow beam antenna usable by the RFID reader to interrogate the RFID tag of a selected one of the items; and

    a circuit to switch between the omnidirectional antenna and the narrow beam antenna usable by the RFID reader, the circuit activated by contact between two contact regions of the glove.

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