G06K 7/10118
The sensing being preceded by at least one preliminary step
Official title: {the sensing being preceded by at least one preliminary step}
G06K7/10118 (The sensing being preceded by at least one preliminary step) appears on 605 US grants and 679 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
- Adaptive RFID inventory system6 Oct 2026US 12,755,241 B2Vena Resources, Inc.
- Article reading system, article reading device, and article reading method25 Aug 2026US 12,718,036 B2NEC Corporation
- Systems and methods for presence estimation for missing products11 Aug 2026US 12,705,573 B2Nexite Ltd.
- Generating non-redundant physical, logical, and location-specific network endpoint identifiers28 Jul 2026US 12,695,622 B2NXP B. V.
- Hand-held spherical antenna system to detect transponder tagged objects, for example during surgery21 Jul 2026US 12,688,922 B2Covidien LP
- Data logging device including multiple sensors and multiple modes of operation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311585 A1Axzon Inc.
- System and method for power optimized rfid scanning and rfid tag localization30 Jul 2026US 2026/0220403 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Systems and methods for performing transactions16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203740 A1Block, Inc.
- Adaptive rfid inventory system9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195707 A1VenaResources, Inc.
- System and method for near field communications payment2 Jul 2026US 2026/0187618 A1Stripe, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for correctly identifying specific RFID tags550US 8,659,397 B2Vocollect, Inc. · 2014
- Bar code symbol reading system supporting visual or/and audible display of product scan speed for throughput optimization in point of sale (POS) environments540US 8,448,863 B2Metrologic Instruments, Inc. · 2013
- NFC tags with proximity detection274US 9,767,329 B2Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC · 2017
- Positioning guidance for increasing reliability of near-field communications267US 9,152,832 B2Broadcom Corporation · 2015
- Detection of an RFID device by an RF reader unit operating in a reduced power state263US 6,476,708 B1HID Corporation · 2002