G06K 7/10386
The interrogation device being of the portable or hand-handheld type
Official title: {the interrogation device being of the portable or hand-handheld type, e.g. incorporated in ubiquitous hand-held devices such as PDA or mobile phone, or in the form of a portable dedicated RFID reader}
G06K7/10386 (The interrogation device being of the portable or hand-handheld type) appears on 515 US grants and 635 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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By later US patents
- Signal tag detection components, devices, and systems666US 9,987,097 B2Elucent Medical, Inc. · 2018
- Encoded information reading terminal with multi-band antenna506US 8,757,495 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- Encoded information reading terminal with micro-electromechanical radio frequency front end506US 8,779,898 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- Snap-on module for selectively installing receiving element(s) to a mobile device495US 8,991,704 B2Intermec IP Corp. · 2015
- Universal connectivity for non-universal devices489US 8,914,788 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014