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It was filed as Georgia Tech invention disclosure GTRC-7744 on November 19, 2017 and then filed as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office provisional patent\u0026nbsp;62\/588,551 on November 20, 2017.\u0026nbsp;The antenna-less RFID tag requires neither a tag antenna nor RF front-end circuits, thus leading to a system that does not have limitations on the frequency at which a tag can operate, can be reprogrammed to perform different functions such as emitting static bits or having dynamic communication, and overall leads to a much simpler, smaller, and more reliable system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis technology is based on toggling electronic inverters that switch between two impedance states that can be read using any RF interrogator and a backscatter channel, which allows the information obtained by the RFID tag to be collected without the use of an antenna. This tag has the capability to operate at any frequency and can store a large number of static bits needed for asset identification and tracking, or it can be used for high data rate communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, the technology enables easy programming of the tag such that existing hardware such as FPGAs can be programmed to behave as RFID tags. Potential commercial\u0026nbsp;applications for this technology include RFID communications, supply chain management, asset tracking, and passport identification.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;Chia-Lin Cheng and Luong Nguyen have been chosen for a 2019 TechConnect Innovation Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. students\u00a0Chia-Lin Cheng and Luong Nguyen have been chosen for a 2019 TechConnect Innovation Award."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2019-06-04 17:05:30","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"605208":{"id":"605208","type":"image","title":"Chia-Lin Cheng","body":null,"created":"1523992340","gmt_created":"2018-04-17 19:12:20","changed":"1523992340","gmt_changed":"2018-04-17 19:12:20","alt":"photograph of Chia-Lin Cheng","file":{"fid":"230759","name":"Woody-1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Woody-1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Woody-1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20570,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Woody-1.jpg?itok=WBaylhH_"}},"605210":{"id":"605210","type":"image","title":"Luong N. 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