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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181875 | RFID tag and driving method thereof The wireless tag includes a circuit which receives an AC signal from the outside and detects an envelope, a detection circuit which detects the level of electric power supplied from the outside and outputs a potential corresponding to the detected electric power, a ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8172140 | Doped implant monitoring for microchip tamper detection A method and apparatus include conductive material doped within a microchip that accumulates a detectable charge in the presence of ions. Such ions may result from a focused ion beam or other unwelcome technology exploitation effort. Circuitry sensing the charge bui... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8157172 | RFID tag package and tire assembly A tire and RFID tag combine as an assembly to include a tire and a tag package mounted to a tire tag mounting surface. The tag package includes a carrier substrate having a die receiving surface and one or more interconnection tabs mounted to the die receiving surfa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8136732 | Electronic transaction card with contactless interface An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electron... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136731 | Controlling connectivity of a wireless smart card reader A system includes a wireless-enabled smart card reader able to be connected concurrently to at least two devices and a mobile device able to be connected wirelessly to the smart card reader and to control connections of the smart card reader. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8123131 | Antenna containing substrate To increase an area in which a component can be mounted in a substrate including an IC chip to which an antenna is connected. For this purpose, an opening at the center of a center substrate is provided with an IC chip. An antenna is wired to an upper surface of the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8091785 | System and method for improving smart card reader reconnections Communications between a computing device and a smart card reader configured for communication with a smart card are facilitated through the use, by the computing device, of a smart card resource manager and a smart card reader service. The smart card reader service... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091786 | Add-on card with smartcard circuitry powered by a mobile device An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electron... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083145 | Provisioning an add-on apparatus with smartcard circuity for enabling transactions An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electron... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083144 | Device for identification of a gas cartridge for a gas-powered fastening device where the apparatus comprises the device and the cartridge for the apparatus A device for identifying a gas cartridge connectable to a gas-powered fastening apparatus via a valve includes a solenoid for both opening/closing the valve and for defining an antenna for wireless communication with an electronic label that is located on the cartri... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079520 | Method for reducing RF interference inside dual-interface card reader and dual-interface card reader thereof The present invention provides a method for reducing RF interference inside a dual-interface card reader and a dual-interface card reader, which relate to dual-interface card reader field. The method includes: adjusting RF power by the dual-interface card reader to ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8070065 | Distributed antenna array with centralized data hub for determining presence and location of RF tags A distributed antenna array with a centralized data hub for determining the presence and location of RF tags has been disclosed. This antenna array centralizes electronics and distributes the RF to zones in a facility to greatly reduce the expense of recurring compo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8052055 | Method and system for perturbing multi-radio-frequency-identification-tag-reader networks to increase interrogation efficiency Methods and systems of the present invention employ perturbation techniques for configuring RFID-tag-reader networks in order to achieve increased overall efficiency of a network of RFID-tag readers. According to described embodiments of the present invention, indiv... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052056 | Apparatus and method of entering an authorization code into a card terminal An authorization code is entered into a card terminal reader from a security card. The authorization code is first entered into a card and stored in a secret memory location or stored into or onto the card with a alternate element. A characteristic physical state of... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8028912 | Device and method for capacitive reading of a code In one embodiment of the present invention, a reading device and a method for determining an identity code is disclosed arranged at a package for a product. At least one embodiment of the present invention is based on capacitive measurements performed in capacitors ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7980469 | Information communication system, information communication device, information communication method and computer program An information communication system includes an information storage medium provided with a data communication function, and an information communication device for accessing the information storage medium, wherein the information storage medium is capable of storing... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975922 | Systems and methods for managing information relating to medical fluids and containers therefor The present invention relates to management of information relating to medical fluids, containers therefor, and medical fluid administration devices for administering such medical fluids to patients. Data tags (e.g., RFID tags) are generally associated with containe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971788 | Electronic payment terminal, smart card adapted to such a terminal and method for loading a secret key in such a terminal The invention relates to a card reader payment terminal including an electrode circuit including at least one printed circuit board, to which are connected electronic components, particularly a microcontroller designed to control different peripherals characterized ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967204 | Assembly comprising a functional device and a resonator and method of making same A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) device. The RFID device comprises an antenna assembly and a resonator assembly. The antenna assembly comprises a first substrate and an antenna element. The resonator assembly comprises a second substrate having an integrated ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7963443 | Systems, methods, and computer program products for mitigating signal noise at a wireless smart device reader Systems, methods, and computer program products for mitigating signal noise at a wireless smart device reader are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method (performed at a wireless smart device reader) that includes re... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7954717 | Provisioning electronic transaction card in mobile device An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electron... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954716 | Electronic transaction card powered by mobile device An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electron... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954715 | Mobile device with transaction card in add-on slot An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electron... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946489 | Electronic-ink based writing/drawing and display device employing an activator module mounted beneath the surface of an electronic-ink display structure An electronic-ink based writing/drawing and display device employing an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The device includes an integrated circuit structure having a storage element... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7938329 | System and method for sensing biometric and non-biometric smart card devices A smart card device includes a card body; and a plurality of card contacts carried by the card body. A smart card chip circuit includes a processor carried by the card body and operably connected to the contacts. At least one memory stores a set of instructions rela... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7926720 | Optimized non-volatile storage systems A memory card that adapts its operation according to the application to which it applied or the conditions under which it is operated. This allows the card to dynamical self optimize. In a first set of embodiments, the card uses host profiling where it will learn ab... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7918396 | Electronic-ink based information organizing device employing an activator module mounted beneath the surface of an electronic-ink display structure An electronic-ink based information organizing device employing an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The device includes an integrated circuit structure having a storage element for ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918395 | Electronic product identification and price display system employing electronic-ink display labels having a stacked architecture for visually displaying the price and/or promotional information for said consumer product, remotely updated by one or more remote activator modules installed within the retail environment An electronic product identification price display system for installation in a retail environment storing a plurality of consumer products on shelves. The system includes a plurality of remote activator modules installed within the retail environment, and a plurali... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913908 | Electronic-ink based display tagging system employing a plurality electronic-ink display tags having a stacked architecture and being powered and programmed by a portable tag activation module An electronic-ink based display tagging system including a plurality of programmable electronic-ink display tags, and a portable tag activation module for programming display indicia to be displayed on each electronic-ink display tag. Each electronic-ink display tag... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913907 | Read state retention circuit and method A read state retention circuit and method are disclosed. The read state retention circuit comprises a charge storage unit, charging unit, sensing circuit and state indicator. The charging circuit is coupled to the charge storage unit for charging the charge storage ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913906 | Reader/writer and manufacturing method thereof A reader/writer comprises a circuit board, a communication control portion mounted on the circuit board and configured to perform communication with IC tags, sealing resin for sealing the communication control portion; and an antenna electrically connected to the co... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7909251 | Memory card pack A memory card pack includes an adaptor insertable in a memory slot of an application device and including a semiconductor chip having a control circuit therein and an expansion socket including a plurality of slots, each slot being configured to receive a memory car... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909252 | Terminal, method and computer program product for interacting with a signaling tag A terminal for interacting with a signaling tag includes a controller capable of selecting a signaling tag and thereafter receiving a tag type from the signaling tag at least partially over an air interface. The controller is also capable of determining if the termi... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7891569 | Electronic-ink based display device employing an electronic-ink layer integrated within a stacked architecture An electronic-ink based display device employing an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The device includes an integrated circuit structure having a storage element for storing instruc... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7871001 | Remotely-alterable electronic-ink based display device employing an electronic-ink layer integrated within a stacked architecture A remotely-alterable electronic-ink based display device employing an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The device includes an integrated circuit structure having a storage element f... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7850082 | Extended universal serial bus (USB) card reader An extended universal serial bus (USB) card reader device is described herein. In one embodiment, a card reader includes a first extended USB (EUSB) connector to be coupled to an external host system, multiple flash memory card sockets capable of receiving multiple ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7828213 | RF label identification In an RF label identification system comprising a label reader and a plurality of labels, a unique and secret identifier being associated with each label, a first random number is sent from a label to the reader. A second random number is then sent from the reader t... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828214 | Mobile phone with electronic transaction card An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electron... | 11/09/2010 |
| RE41825 | Card reader The invention relates to the design of card readers for cards equipped with memory. Such cards, and also the data stored in the memory of such cards, are generally utilized to produce and/or maintain operating states of technical devices. It is also known that the u... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7815116 | Electronic tagging system for tagging a plurality of luggage items transported through a transportation system, using electronic-ink display tags for displaying real-time information regarding said luggage items, and remotely programmable by activator modules installed throughout said transportion system An electronic tagging system for tagging a plurality of luggage items transported through a transportation system. The system includes a plurality of electronic-ink display labels coupled to a plurality of luggage items. Each electronic-ink display label displays gr... | 10/19/2010 |
