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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179233 | UHF timing system for participatory athletic events A participatory athletic event timing system based on backscattering modulation in the UHF band and including wirelessly encoding writable data tags with participant's bib numbers or a calculated derivative thereof for timing participants in a participative athletic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169303 | Method and system using RFID tags for initiation of selected business processes A system and related methods for dynamically re-configuring a radio frequency identification tag reader, engaging software business processes, or combinations of both, using a radio-frequency-readable configuration tag which physically associated with one or more RF... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8130082 | RFID system including a programmable RF tag A radio frequency (RF) tag is provided with an antenna coil adapted and configured to wirelessly exchange data with a read/write terminal, a RF transmitting/receiving unit adapted and configured to modulate and demodulate data exchanged via the antenna coil, a proto... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115604 | Reader control system An RFID reader control system and method is provided. A protocol for controlling an RFID reader and an RFID reader control unit of a mobile phone is defined. Messages, information, commands, responses, and notification are constructed and transmitted between the RFI... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111143 | Assembly for monitoring an environment An assembly for monitoring an environment includes a RFID tag and a sensing unit. The sensing unit is configured to be activated by a RF signal received by the RFID tag and to sense information regarding an environment. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111142 | Non-contact ID tag writing apparatus for enabling high-speed data writing into a plurality of non-contact ID tags A non-contact ID tag writing apparatus capable of applying high-speed writing to a non-contact ID tag is realized. With a plurality of antennas (221 to 223) arranged along the direction in which tags (11) are transported, one antenna applies wri... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098139 | Test head device There is disclosed a test head device for testing the functionality of a large number of RFID chips arranged in smart labels (17) within a smart label production apparatus by means of a data reading and/or data writing process, wherein the smart labels (17... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8063748 | Radio IC tag communication system A communication system includes a wireless IC tag and a reader/writer that performs reading and writing on the wireless IC tag via wireless communication. The reader/writer includes an error control encoder and an error control decoder. On writing data into the wire... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8031055 | Tag authentication method using rotation, and tag and reader performing the method A tag authentication method, and a tag and reader performing the method are provided. The tag authentication method, including: a reader generating a first random number and transmitting the first random number to a tag; the reader receiving a second random number a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022815 | Magnetic RFID coupler with balanced signal configuration A magnetic coupler arrangement that includes two quarter wave length strip patches, an input signal source, a signal splitter that splits an input signal from the input signal source into two signals and phase-shifts one of the two signals, wherein the phase-shifted... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7999659 | Method for access control A method for access control to at least one memory area of a passive and/or backscatter-based transponder is provided. In the method for access control, depending on an identification selection criterion, a first or at least one second identification within the tran... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7978053 | Tag-information management apparatus and IC tag An apparatus for managing information about an integrated circuit tag includes an acquiring unit and a storing unit. The acquiring unit acquires communication range information that is information about a range in which the integrated circuit tag communicates with a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969286 | Process and system for automatically updating data recorded in a radio frequency identifier The invention is intended to be used in the technological field of communication and the update of data between electronic equipment (1, 2) capable of inter-communicating using wireless links. The invention relates more particularly to a process and a system ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961079 | Radio communication apparatus Upon receiving a command for writing data to a transponder, a reading unit performs radio communication with the transponder to which data should be written, thereby reading, in non-contact fashion, a data item stored in the transponder. A collating unit collates th... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7936252 | Adaptive control for improved RFID transponder read and write performance System, methods and computer program product are provided for an adaptive control for adjusting the electromagnetic interrogation signal of an RFID transceiver where said signal is used to read and/or write to an RFID transponder, or to adjust the gain of the RFID t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7902964 | Hybrid system option key Embodiments herein place a product and a programmable device within a shipping package, seal the shipping package, and program the programmable device by transmitting wireless signals to the programmable device, without opening the shipping package. Then, after the ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898392 | Control method, control system, RFID antenna and connection investigation method A technique of preventing occurrence of interference even when a plurality of RFID antennas are used simultaneously. Each RFID antenna is attached with a calibration RFID tag. A combination of RFID antennas that causes a problem is acquired based on whether informat... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7880590 | Method and apparatus for localization of configurable devices A localization method for setting the locale of a configurable device is presented. The first portion of the localization transmits localization selections for a target locale to a configurable device. Localization selections are initially set on an interrogator dev... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868739 | Method and system for improving function of reading information from RFID tag A system and method for improving a function of reading information from a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The system includes RFID tags installed on a variety of objects, each RFID tag storing information of its associated object and upon detection of a ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7852198 | RF tag Various embodiments and methods relating to a radio frequency (RF) tag storing custom settings of an electronic device are disclosed. ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7825776 | Device configuration with RFID Various embodiments of the invention may use a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag with a writable non-volatile storage element to receive and store configuration parameters for a device connected to the RFID tag, even if the device itself is powered off. Upon... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7786846 | Communication station for inventorizing transponders by means of selectable memory areas of the transponders A communication station (1) and a transponder (2) are designed in such a way that an inventorizing operation can be performed using various memory areas (36, 37, 38, 39, 40), which are provided in an addressable memory (35) of the transpo... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7772964 | Systems and methods for automated programming of RFID tags using machine readable indicia Methods and systems for automatically programming an RFID tag using machine readable indicia. A dual mode device performs a bar code scan of a bar coded label. Information obtained from the bar code scan is stored. This information may be used to query a database in... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7746217 | Reading from and writing to memory tags The reading of data from a memory tag to another device, using a memory tag reader, is described. The other device has an active portion which can detect the presence and position of the memory tag reader when brought adjacent to it. The memory tag reader is brought... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7710242 | Information access system and active-type contactless information storage device A contactless information storage device for use in an information access system includes a receiver unit and a transmitter unit. The receiver unit is operable to sense a carrier at a first frequency in a slave mode and be continuously ready to receive an RF signal ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7646284 | Systems and apparatus for writing data to multiple RF tags contained on print media Print media (28) having a plurality of radio frequency data storage devices (88) passes through a print media pathway (110) of a printer assembly (14). The devices (88) can be programmed using groups (142, 144) of antennas w... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7583180 | Semiconductor device for passive RFID, IC tag, and control method thereof A semiconductor according to an embodiment of the invention has a supply voltage generator circuit generating a supply voltage based on a received radio signal, a voltage detector circuit detecting a reference voltage dependent on the supply voltage, a memory circui... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7504929 | Method and system for updating RFID tag value of transferred object A system for updating a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag value of a transferred object is contemplated. The RFID tag is updated by having a transferor's RFID reader read an RFID tag attached to an object being transferred and extracting a first RFID tag val... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7482908 | Radio-frequency-device personalization Radio-frequency devices that have internal radio-frequency chips are personalized. A radio-frequency device is inserted into a package. An identifier is read electromagnetically from the radio-frequency chip with a radio-frequency transceiver while the radio-frequen... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7479870 | Method and apparatus for programming a transponder A radio frequency identification transponder apparatus includes a transceiver. A control logic device is coupled to the transceiver. A transponder programming device is coupled to the control logic device and operable to store information, whereby the information st... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7436286 | Circuit arrangement and method for increasing the functional range of a transponder A transponder receives its operating energy from an external source such as a radio signal or a battery. Such transponders are used for example in a vehicle or in a remote sensor. The response range of the transponder is increased by converting the received energy i... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436302 | Low cost RFID labeling device A system for dispensing, reading and verifying RFID tags. The system includes a label dispenser that dispenses labels that contain RFID tags from a bulk label storage device, an RFID Reader/Writer device that is operatively connected to the label dispenser. The RFID... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429926 | Radio frequency identification (RFID) and programmable logic device (PLD) integration and applications A Programmable Logic Device (PLD), such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), is provided with components of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag and circuitry to enhance operation. The RFID antenna and circuitry is provided in either directly in layers ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427912 | Method and system for storage and recovery of vital information on radio frequency transponders The present invention assures the integrity of state information retained by a Radio Frequency Transponder during a loss of power. During the regular operation of the Transponder power is provided to a voltage-storing device powering an information retention mechani... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423518 | Reader/writer An reader/writer performing a two-way communication with a contactless tag through electromagnetic induction and supplying electric power to the contactless tag, includes: an antenna circuit having an antenna coil for electromagnetically coupling with an antenna coi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423517 | Transponder with a controllable power-on-reset circuit In a transponder (1) and an integrated circuit (5), the integrated circuit (6) has a monitoring circuit (23) to which a d.c. supply voltage (VS) can be fed and by which a signalizing signal (POK) whose waveform is dependent on the relatio... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420466 | Rich object model for diverse Auto-ID tags A system and method allowing one application to implement diverse AutoID tags interchangeably, by unifying all AutoID technologies into a single object model. The single object model interacts with all AutoID technologies, with only a lowest level device tailored to... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414517 | Radio frequency identification transponder A radio frequency identification transponder includes a power supply and a dynamic memory array that stores data. When power from the power supply ceases, the data in the dynamic memory array is validly maintained for a predetermined period of time. The dynamic memo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411502 | Radio frequency identification tag based tray and tray receiving method and apparatus A tray (201) comprises electrically conductive material and has at least one hand-graspable fixture (203). This hand-graspable fixture comprises an electrical conductor (301) disposed in a location that is likely to be operably interacted with b... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411482 | Wireless tag reader and writer A wireless tag reader and writer includes: a plurality of read and write boxes each having an opening at one end, through which an article with a wireless tag is accommodated, and a read antenna and a write antenna on parts of the side wall at the end opposite to th... | 08/12/2008 |
