Patent ID: 7086593

Claim:
A magnetic field response measurement acquisition system, comprising: one or more inductively powered magnetic field response sensors, wherein one or more attributes of the one or more sensor responses correspond to one or more measured unrelated physical states and further wherein said one or more attributes are selected from the group consisting of amplitude, frequency and bandwidth; antenna means for transmitting magnetic fields to power said one or more sensors and for receiving magnetic field responses from said one or more sensors; an interrogation means for regulating said magnetic field transmission from and reception to said antenna means, and for analyzing said one or more sensor response attributes received from said one or more sensors, wherein said interrogation means can interrogate multiple sensors concurrently using a single acquisition channel, does not require that said signals from said one or more sensors be transmitted as modulated signals on a radio frequency carrier, and can concurrently acquire measurements of more than one unrelated physical state from each said sensor.