Patents Assigned to Intermec IP Corp.
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Patent number: 9779274Abstract: An apparatus for use in an RFID data collection system includes an antenna portion for wirelessly exchanging signals and a memory portion for storing RFID data. A signal processing portion is coupled among the antenna portion and the memory portion. The signal processing portion is configured to receive RFID data and to at least encode or decode the received RFID data via at least one spreading code, such as a mutually orthogonal code. Other configurations are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: Paul A. Maltseff, Ronald D. Payne
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Patent number: 9779546Abstract: Systems and methods for volume dimensioning packages are provided. A method of operating a volume dimensioning system may include the receipt of image data of an area at least a first three-dimensional object to be dimensioned from a first point of view as captured using at least one image sensor. The system can determine from the received image data a number of features in three dimensions of the first three-dimensional object. Based at least on part on the determined features of the first three-dimensional object, the system can fit a first three-dimensional packaging wireframe model about the first three-dimensional object. The system can display of an image of the first three-dimensional packaging wireframe model fitted about an image of the first three-dimensional object on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventors: Jeffrey Mark Hunt, Edward J. Jennings, Nancy Wojack, Scott Xavier Houle
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Patent number: 9767327Abstract: An RFID network, comprising a plurality of RFID read/write devices, which are connected to a central controller via a communication network, has problems as the network size increases. The mutual interference potential on the air interfaces increases, high demands are placed on the communication network with respect to availability, and the efficiency of the controller per RFID write/read device decreases. If part of the resources and the intelligence of the controller are distributed to, or forwarded to, an RFID system unit comprising the RFID read/write device, some of the load is removed from the controller. The RFID system units are notified of the operating sequences to be performed via a mission and said sequences are performed largely synchronously so that the interference potential decreases. Due to the distributed intelligence, the demand with respect to the availability of the communication network likewise decreases and the central controller can provide more resources for processing applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventor: Roland Küng
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Publication number: 20170262667Abstract: Provided are RFID systems, methods and RFID tags according to various aspects. An infrared (IR) beam, from an IR transmitter, is outputted in a first direction so that an RFID tag with an IR sensor adds a flag to stored data in the RFID tag in response to the RFID tag's IR sensor detecting the IR beam. An RF interrogation signal is outputted by an RFID reader, and a response is received from the RFID tag to the RF interrogation signal. It is determined whether the flag is contained in the RFID tag's response to the RF interrogation signal, and if so, the RFID tag is determined to be in the first direction relative to the IR transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: Pavel NIKITIN, Stephen J. KELLY
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Patent number: 9741165Abstract: Systems and methods for volume dimensioning packages are provided. A method of operating a volume dimensioning system may include the receipt of image data of an area at least a first three-dimensional object to be dimensioned from a first point of view as captured using at least one image sensor. The system can determine from the received image data a number of features in three dimensions of the first three-dimensional object. Based at least on part on the determined features of the first three-dimensional object, the system can fit a first three-dimensional packaging wireframe model about the first three-dimensional object. The system can display of an image of the first three-dimensional packaging wireframe model fitted about an image of the first three-dimensional object on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventors: Jeffrey Mark Hunt, Edward J. Jennings, Nancy Wojack, Scott Xavier Houle
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Patent number: 9726475Abstract: A dimensioning system can include stored data indicative of coordinate locations of each reference element in a reference image containing a pseudorandom pattern of elements. Data indicative of the coordinates of elements appearing in an acquired image of a three-dimensional space including an object can be compared to the stored data indicative of coordinate locations of each reference element. After the elements in the acquired image corresponding to the reference elements in the reference image are identified, a spatial correlation between the acquired image and the reference image can be determined. Such a numerical comparison of coordinate data reduces the computing resource requirements of graphical comparison technologies.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventor: Franck Laffargue
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Patent number: 9727719Abstract: A system and method of granting and removing a user's security access to applications on a computer using proximity of authorized RFID tags is disclosed. A user having an authorized RFID tag that is located near the computer will be granted access to pre-authorized applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventor: Stephen Dean
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Patent number: 9727763Abstract: A method of addressing one or more RFID devices within a group of RFID devices includes transmitting a command to respond to the group at a first modulation depth. The method further includes receiving a response from a first sub-group of RFID devices in the group that have a minimum modulation depth less than or equal to the first modulation depth. The method further includes transmitting the command to respond to the group at a second modulation depth higher than the first modulation depth. The method further includes receiving a response from a second sub-group of RFID devices within the group that have a minimum modulation depth less than or equal to the second modulation depth. The method is also directed to authenticating RFIDs by comparing a measured minimum modulation depth to a known minimum modulation depth.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: Pavel Nikitin, Stephen J. Kelly
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Patent number: 9705183Abstract: A reconfigurable antenna element is controlled using a wirelessly powered and wirelessly activated switch, where the antenna element is part of an antenna or antenna array. A control signal for reconfiguring the antenna element is embedded into a wirelessly transmitted data signal for transmission by the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventor: Pavel Nikitin
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Patent number: 9704002Abstract: In one aspect where a load or a subset of one or more tags is in motion relative to an RFID reader system, the RFID system obtains tag readings and derives tag scalar or vector motional data e.g. tag velocity, tag acceleration, and/or rate of change of tag acceleration which can be compared to known tag motional information to distinguish true tags of interest from false positives which are unavoidably also within the field of the reader system. An antenna system may also make readings during distinctive movement patterns of true tags, such as vertical or arcuate movement and utilize computed tag motional data based on the tag readings to distinguish true tags from false positives. Two components of the RFID system may communicate information on identified tags, and/or interact (e.g. by silencing tags), so as to cooperate in identifying true positive tags.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: Pavel V. Nikitin, Gary Neal Spiess, Hunter Martin Leland, Lynn Carl Hingst, John Howland Sherman
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Patent number: 9696164Abstract: A non-time of flight or time of arrival position location system for accurate determination of a user's location in an enclosed, indoor, or covered environment can include a number of beacons mounted in an arrangement within the environment. Each of the beacons is mounted in a known location and transmits a broadcast signal containing a unique identifier that identifies the originating beacon. A handheld electronic device including a receiver and a communicably coupled processor can receive broadcast signals from at least some of the number of beacons, iteratively determine a vector quantity corresponding to each of the received signals, and sum the resultant vector quantities to determine an updated position. The iterative process can be repeated until consecutive iterations yield an updated position that falls within a defined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORPInventors: Michael Hansen, Allen White, Ronald Van Der Putten
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Patent number: 9697397Abstract: A system and method of using motion or spatial identification technology with a mobile RFID reader to detect whether an RFID tag is part of a forklift load or other ambulatory space such as a shopping cart receptacle, includes determining whether a tag is within a defined space and/or whether a tag is in motion relative to a mobile RFID reader. The system and method determines whether a particular RFID tag is part of a forklift load/space, has been added to or removed, is an extraneous tag, etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: Steven V. Schatz, Gary Neal Spiess, Thaddeus Ternes, Maury Anderson, Hunter M. Leland
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Patent number: 9665750Abstract: Provided are RFID systems, methods and RFID tags according to various aspects. An infrared (IR) beam, from an IR transmitter, is outputted in a first direction so that an RFID tag with an IR sensor adds a flag to stored data in the RFID tag in response to the RFID tag's IR sensor detecting the IR beam. An RF interrogation signal is outputted by an RFID reader, and a response is received from the RFID tag to the RF interrogation signal. It is determined whether the flag is contained in the RFID tag's response to the RF interrogation signal, and if so, the RFID tag is determined to be in the first direction relative to the IR transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORPInventors: Pavel Nikitin, Stephen J. Kelly
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Patent number: 9641647Abstract: A communication protocol and system is disclosed for network communications between a data service residing on a client that provides network communications between one or more mobile applications on a mobile computing device and a network based on a process number. The shared data service communicates with a data service plug-in on the server side associated with the process number, in order to handle requests from the mobile applications that access a plug-in associated with the process number through the data service. The communication connection between the mobile application and the data plug may be managed by a set of rules defined for that network communication.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventors: Jaroslav Hala, Petr Franek
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Patent number: 9536081Abstract: A communication protocol and system is disclosed for network communications between a data service residing on a client that provides network communications between one or more mobile applications on a source and a network based on a process number. The shared data service communicates with a data service plug-in on the server side associated with the process number, in order to handle requests from the mobile applications that access the network through the data service. Predetermined network connection, priority, and additional rules can be used to control what plug-in can be reached through what type of network connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventors: Garrick Fiala, Radek Kasal
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Publication number: 20160363661Abstract: A system for determining a bearing or location of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag using a handheld RFID reader is described. In one embodiment, the reader is equipped with an accelerometer. A user moves the reader while the reader receives the tag's signal and determines the tag signal's phase at multiple locations. The locations of the reader antenna can be reconstructed using the accelerometer data. By using the phase determined at multiple locations in conjunction with the location of the reader antenna, the reader can determine the bearing of the tag. For an RFID reader not equipped with an accelerometer, the sign and ratio of the rate of change in the phase of a tag's signal to the distance traveled by the reader antenna can be used to determine the location of the tag relative to the reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: Pavel NIKITIN, Kvs RAO, Rainer BRUECKMANN, Hunter LELAND, Stephen KELLY
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Publication number: 20160330186Abstract: A system for authenticating data acquired by multiple sensors prior to storing the data in a database is described. The system also authenticates users requesting data access and intelligence agents that provide analyses of data stored in the database. As a result, any data or data analysis obtained from the system is traceable and reliable.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventor: Michael HANSEN
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Patent number: 9491729Abstract: A network device performs a delayed registration in connection with phone call setup, if the network device does not know a phone number of a user in question at the time of updating the location updating. In addition, the network device performs user authentication and creates and maintains an encrypted and secure network connection between the network device and an IP multimedia subsystem by using data security mechanisms of a terminal of the IP multimedia subsystem and the authentication and data security parameters of the terminal received from the IP multimedia subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventors: Markku Rautiola, Heikki Oukka
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Patent number: 9465968Abstract: Methods for performing a scheme that results in a refined measurement pattern within an optical grid are provided. Physically adjusting spacing of elements within an optical grid to achieve enhanced resolution is historically unfeasible, as reduction of the spacing causes light sensors of the optical grid to pick up false signals when reading light beams. Technology introduced by the present invention generates a virtual reduced spacing of the elements within the optical grid by using two signals that are slightly different. These slightly different signals can accomplish, at least, quarter-grid spacing resolution within the optical grid. Additionally, the enhanced resolution derived from the virtual reduced spacing is employed to govern movement of a motor. The motor movement is in response to one or more changes of direction such that the motor is operating in its linear range.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.Inventors: Khalid El Akel, Jean-Pierre Stang, Bernard Serres
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Patent number: 9459343Abstract: A system for determining a bearing or location of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag using a handheld RFID reader is described. In one embodiment, the reader is equipped with an accelerometer. A user moves the reader while the reader receives the tag's signal and determines the tag signal's phase at multiple locations. The locations of the reader antenna can be reconstructed using the accelerometer data. By using the phase determined at multiple locations in conjunction with the location of the reader antenna, the reader can determine the bearing of the tag. For an RFID reader not equipped with an accelerometer, the sign and ratio of the rate of change in the phase of a tag's signal to the distance traveled by the reader antenna can be used to determine the location of the tag relative to the reader.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: INTERMEC IP CORP.Inventors: Pavel Nikitin, Kvs Rao, Rainer Brueckmann, Hunter Leland, Stephen Kelly