Patents by Inventor Steven Lee Zimmerman

Steven Lee Zimmerman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods, Systems and Apparatus for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System Configuration Management
    Publication number: 20090096585
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for controlling initiation of configuration of RFID readers using initiate-staging control information, include interrogating a reading zone of a reader for initiate-staging control information, and selectively setting the reader in an initiate-staging state in accordance with initiate-staging control information detected by the interrogation. The interrogation may include interrogating at least one RFID tag located in the reading zone of the reader for initiate-staging control information stored therein. The interrogation may include interrogating a reading zone of the reader for initiate-staging control information only during a predetermined period of time TISC, e.g., after power-up of the reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Perry Herrod, Steven Lee Zimmerman, Paul Alexander Cowan