G06K 7/10178
Including auxiliary means for focusing, repeating or boosting the electromagnetic interrogation field
Official title: {including auxiliary means for focusing, repeating or boosting the electromagnetic interrogation field (comparable booster antennas integrated on the record carrier itself G06K19/07794)}
G06K7/10178 (Including auxiliary means for focusing, repeating or boosting the electromagnetic interrogation field) appears on 334 US grants and 396 published applications in this corpus.
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