G06K 7/10138
The step consisting of determining the type of record carrier
Official title: {the step consisting of determining the type of record carrier, e.g. to determine if the record carrier is an RFID tag of the long or short range type, or to determine the preferred communication protocol of the RFID tag}
G06K7/10138 (The step consisting of determining the type of record carrier) appears on 51 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 51
- Published applications
- 61
- Assignees
- 51
- Inventors
- 137
- Latest grant
- 13 Jan 2026
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Recent patents
- Communication apparatus that communicates tag information with another communication apparatus13 Jan 2026US 12,524,633 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- RFID tags enforcing persistence while powered15 Jul 2025US 12,361,233 B1Impinj, Inc.
- Radio-frequency identification (RFID) printer with a rotatable antenna bracket component21 Jan 2025US 12,204,981 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Semiconductor process system and method31 Dec 2024US 12,183,607 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Software-based RFID tag emulator26 Nov 2024US 12,153,986 B2T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Method and apparatus determining rfid viability4 Dec 2025US 2025/0371296 A1Engineered Products of Ohio, LLC
- Providing contextual information for passive devices25 Sep 2025US 2025/0298998 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- RF communication device for adaptive detection of further RF communication devices13 Mar 2025US 2025/0088833 A1NXP B. V.
- Software-Based RFID Tag Emulator13 Feb 2025US 2025/0053757 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Software-Based RFID Tag Emulator15 Aug 2024US 2024/0273314 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- RFID tag chips and tags with alternative memory lock bits and methods29US 7,872,582 B1Impinj, Inc. · 2011
- RFID tag chips and tags able to be partially killed and methods26US 8,044,774 B1Impinj, Inc. · 2011
- Autonomous authentication of a reader by a radio frequency identity (RFID) device18US 9,460,573 B1Sprint Communications Co.L.P. · 2016
- RFID tags enforcing persistence while powered14US 10,740,574 B1Impinj, Inc. · 2020
- RFID tags enforcing persistence while powered12US 11,200,387 B1Impinj, Inc. · 2021