G06K 7/10861
Sensing of data fields affixed to objects or articles
Official title: {sensing of data fields affixed to objects or articles, e.g. coded labels (postal sorting B07C3/14, conveying articles B65G47/48)}
G06K7/10861 (Sensing of data fields affixed to objects or articles) appears on 1,509 US grants and 980 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 25 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Camera device and method for reading optical codes30 Jun 2026US 12,670,347 B2Sick AG
- System and method for power optimized rfid scanning and rfid tag localization30 Jul 2026US 2026/0220403 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Battery cell identification method and system30 Jul 2026US 2026/0222522 A1Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
- Automated Robotic Replenishment System23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208952 A1Staples, Inc.
- System and method for optimizing slide pick basket operations16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200094 A1Pramana, Inc.
- Dynamically configurable item addressing system16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203703 A1United States Postal Service
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- Optical reader for classifying an image558US 7,413,127 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2008
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- Optical code reader for producing video displays and measuring physical parameters of objects345US 6,336,587 B12002
- Autodiscrimination for dataform decoding and standardized recording343US 5,739,518 AMetanetics Corporation · 1998