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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130562 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR A RAIL VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA WITH A RAIL VEHICLE A data communication system for a rail vehicle includes a data reading device and a processing module. The data reading device is disposed on the rail vehicle and is configured to at least one of electromagnetically interrogate or optically read identification data that... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109402 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A GRID CONNECTION POINT USING A TAG An electrical outlet, an electrical outlet cover for use with an electrical outlet and methods of identifying a grid connection point for bill processing of a charging event and managing energy services are disclosed. The electrical outlet cover includes a cover unit ha... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105213 | Information Transmission and Processing Systems and Methods for Freight Carriers Methods and systems for remotely monitoring trailer or trailers attached to a vehicle is provided. The method includes associating an identification tag or ABS ECU that is configured to broadcast a trailer identification signal with a trailer. The method further include... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105214 | Aggregating and Routing Sensor Data at a Community Sensor-Coordinating Entity In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from multiple sensors associated with multiple persons; for each of the sensors, identifying the person associated with the sensor; determining whether the sensor data are valid; and, for the sensor data that ar... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081214 | Method and System of Managing the Safety of a Plurality of Personal Protection Equipment Items A system and method are provided for managing the safety of a plurality (10) of personal protection equipment items (11). The system and method assign unique identifiers (12) to each of the items (11) and encodes the identifiers (12) i... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068831 | WIRELESS TAG WRITING/READING APPARATUS AND METHOD BY THE SAME Certain embodiments provide a wireless tag writing apparatus including: a generation unit configured to generate an identification code to be written in a wireless tag having a memory storing data, the identification code identifying an object attached with the wireless... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120038466 | PICKING SYSTEM A picking system comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, a case, a two-wire conductive strip, at least one identifying unit and a processing unit. The two-wire conductive strip is electrically connected between the identifying unit and the processing unit... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120029697 | ROBOTIC TRANSPORTATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS A robotic transportation device may include a device body, two docking arms, and a controller module. The device body may include at least one motorized wheel, and the two docking arms may include an adjustable wheel locking device. The two docking arms may extend horiz... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019369 | Arrangement for Controlling Image Plate and Its Image Information and a Method for Controlling the Arrangement A medical imaging system comprises at least an image plate, X-ray device for producing an image of an object on said image plate, and a reading device for reading image information held by the image plate. In connection with the image plate there is a tag containing inf... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019368 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING AN ARTICLE USING MICRORADIOS A microradio is provided with a hysteretic switch to permit an optimum range increasing charging cycle, with the charging cycle being long relative to the transmit cycle. Secondly, an ensemble of microradios permits an n2 power enhancement to increase range w... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013440 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Module-Based Scanning of RFID Tags These teachings comprise accessing an identifier as corresponds to a given module of RFID-tagged items and then using that identifier to filter the RFID tag readings. By one approach, one can obtain this identifier for the module by reading an optical code as correspond... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120001737 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY A method for obtaining an X-ray image of a subject on a flexible information carrier plate for computed radiography. A memory is affixed to a surface of the plate, wherein the affixed memory stores information about the plate and is in wireless communication with a comp... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110279246 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO VISUALIZE LOCATIONS OF RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) TAGGED ITEMS Methods and apparatus to visualize locations of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagged items are described. One example method includes receiving a request from a portable electronic device to access product information associated with an individual radio frequenc... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279245 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING RFID SMART LABELS WITH CUSTOMER DATABASE RECORDS FOR USE WITH AUTOMATED TRACKING OF WASTE AND RECYCLABLE MATERIAL A method of quickly and accurately associating a customer name and address with a unique RFID identification tag to be used on a waste or recyclable materials container by the customer. A self-adhesive RFID label including an embedded RFID identification tag is provided... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110254667 | STRING MATERIAL WITH RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS A product includes a string material; and a series of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags secured along a length of the string material. Each RFID tag has an identifier stored therein for transmission to identify that RFID tag and a path along the string material... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110241845 | Automated Material Handling System with Identification Features Amongst other things, a material handling system comprises a controller; a transport system, the transport system comprising transport track sections and at least one transport vehicle, the at least one transport vehicle configured to move along the transport track sect... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234385 | SYSTEM, CARRIER, PROGRAM AND CONTROLLER DEVICE The present invention relates to a system (1) comprising a controllable device (10) for executing a program; and a carrier (30) having a surface comprising a plurality of surface markings (34, 36), each marking being located over a RF tag emb... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227856 | USER IDENTIFICATION BASED ON BODY-COUPLED COMMUNICATION A secure identification system is proposed in which a user gets access through an identification device or badge or tag (51) worn on his/her body, which applies the techniques of body coupled communication (BCC) to create a kind of aura around the user. An identi... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227709 | WIRELESS ASSET MANAGEMENT AND DEMAND FLOOR PLAN AUDIT SYSTEM Disclosed is a vehicle tracking and system for a vehicle dealerships, storage facilities and financial institutions. The vehicle tracking system includes wireless security apparatus that is coupled with a vehicles OBD-II system. The wireless security apparatus communica... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110221579 | Systems and methods for RFID-based access management of electronic devices Disclosed are systems and methods for preventing unauthorized persons from using an electronic device within a facility. In such an embodiment, the system may include a RFID tag having unique identification information associated with a wearer of the RFID tag. The RFID ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221578 | WIRELESS IDENTIFICATION CARD The wireless identification card (10) includes an identification information storage (11) configured to store identification information, and a transmitter (12) configured to transmit, to a reader (90), a wireless signal including the identif... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221577 | COMMUNICATION INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM A commodity information display apparatus includes a shelf on which a commodity is displayed, and a display unit for displaying the commodity information about the commodity. The commodity information about the commodity related to an RFID tag detected by an antenna and... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110210829 | Method of Actively Tagging Electronic Designs and Intellectual Property Cores In an embodiment of the invention, an active security tag is embedded within the digital logic of an electronic design for logic destined for an integrated circuit such as an FPGA. The security tag includes security tag data which permits identification of the electroni... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208117 | Catheter A catheter is disclosed. The catheter has a body having a proximal end and a distal end. The body encloses a plurality of independent lumens which extend longitudinally from the proximal end to the distal end. One of the independent lumens is sealed at the distal end wh... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110193678 | UTILITY METER TAMPER MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD A method includes activating a tamper monitoring circuit of a security seal configured to securely lock a utility meter. The method also includes wirelessly transmitting an identification data and/or an integrity information associated with the security seal and/or the ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110193690 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF COMPONENTS IN AN ELECTRICAL LOW-VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR ASSEMBLY In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for identification of components in an electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly is disclosed. The electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly according to one embodiment of the invention includes at least one truck m... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110169642 | BEVERAGE CONTAINER AUTHENTICITY AND PROVENANCE DEVICES AND METHODS An RFID label and optional secondary security label ensures the authenticity of a beverage contained in a beverage container. The RFID label cannot be removed without destroying the RFID label or rendering it inoperable. A secondary security label may be placed over the... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110169606 | AUTOMATIC ADDRESS SELECTION FOR CONTROLLABLE DEVICES Controlling controllable devices (12) such as lamp units that are installed in a building (10) with a plurality of control interface units (14) such as light switches. Each control interface unit (14) has a receptor (20), such as a lig... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110165859 | INTERACTIVE ID SYSTEM USING MOBILE DEVICES An interactive ID system enables dynamic delivery of content to a mobile device of a person on a campus. The system includes an interactive ID server coupled to receive a tag ID of a near field communication (NFC) tag and a reader ID of an NFC reader in communication wi... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110163857 | Energy Harvesting for Low Frequency Inductive Tagging A system for detection and tracking of objects which carry low radio frequency tags that comprise an inductive antenna and transceiver operable at a radio frequency below 1 megahertz, a transceiver operatively connected to that antenna, an ID data storage device, a micr... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110163844 | IDENTIFICATION ELEMENT HAVING AN OPTICAL TRANSPONDER An identification element has a transponder with a data-emitting transmission unit and with a data-receiving reception unit in order to communicate with a device for registering and/or controlling access authorization to spaces or objects. In addition, a control circuit... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110156883 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A STATE OF OPERATION OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL, CORRESPONDING PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD AND UNIT FOR REMOTE MONITORING A system for monitoring a state of operation of a photovoltaic panel. The system comprises a transponder for connection to the panel, wherein, when the panel is in a first state of operation, the transponder transmits an individual identifier code in response to a pre-d... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110148603 | OILFIELD EQUIPMENT IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A system comprising a piece of oilfield equipment, an identifier assembly and a reader. The piece of oilfield equipment has an exterior surface. The identifier assembly comprises an identification tag storing a unique identifier. The identification tag is capable of out... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140864 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND CATEGORIZING DISTRIBUTED DEVICES Systems for identifying and categorizing distributed devices, e.g., lighting fixtures and thermostats, is disclosed. In an embodiment, a user (200) sends a low power discovery message to devices (201) using a portable programming tool (100). The dev... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140861 | Two Directional Information Flow in Real Time Location Sensing RFID Networks An RFID system with a plurality of tags and base stations where transmission of information to a specific tag is carried out by one of the base stations, where said one of the base stations is selected based on received signal power of the tag relative to the plurality ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110133905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING TAGGED ARTICLES An automatic data collection system tracks articles by providing a robust electromagnetic (EM) field within an enclosure in which the articles are stored. Respective data carriers, such as RFID tags, attached to each article respond to the electromagnetic field by trans... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110128130 | Group Proving Method and Radio Frequency Identification Reader and Tags using Thereof A group proving method includes the following steps. First, a query command is broadcasted to radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, each of which responds the query command with tag identification data. Next, a first round parameter is generated and broadcasted ac... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110121951 | ANTI-FAKE BATTERY PACK AND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM THEREOF An anti-fake battery pack and an identification system thereof has a casing and multiple battery cells, each of which as a battery body, an inner identifier mounted outside the battery body, a protection layer mounted around outside of the battery body and the outer ide... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110115612 | MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY ASSOCIATING MEDIA WITH DEVICES DETECTED BY AN RFID A system and method for managing media is described herein. The system includes a camera oriented towards a visually distinguishing mark, at least one actuation device that generates an instruction for at least one of the camera and an RFID reading system, and a central... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110095882 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT OF TWO-WAY WIRELESS SENSORS IN A SECURITY SYSTEM A system and method are disclosed for enrolling two-way wireless security system devices (alarms, detectors, lights) in a security system. A controller is provided and is capable of exchanging wireless signals with the two-way wireless devices. The system has an enroll ... | 04/28/2011 |
