G06K 7/10158
Methods and means used by the interrogation device for reliably powering the
Official title: {methods and means used by the interrogation device for reliably powering the wireless record carriers using an electromagnetic interrogation field}
G06K7/10158 (Methods and means used by the interrogation device for reliably powering the) appears on 604 US grants and 704 published applications in this corpus.
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- Intelligent station using multiple RF antennae and inventory control system and method incorporating same395US 7,084,769 B2Vue Technology, Inc. · 2006
- IC module and smart card320US 6,378,774 B1Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. · 2002