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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Matthew S. Doyle, Chatfield, MN (US);

Jeffrey N. Judd, Oronoco, MN (US);

Scott D. Strand, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G08B 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 13/2414 (2013.01); G08B 13/246 (2013.01); G08B 13/2442 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes transmitting a first magnetic detection signal at a first magnetic frequency and transmitting a second magnetic detection signal at a second magnetic frequency. The method also includes detecting a first response from a first magnetic material to the first magnetic detection signal and detecting a second response from the second magnetic material to the second magnetic detection signal. Each of the first magnetic material and the second magnetic material is associated with a substrate of the coded tag. The method further includes determining that the coded tag encodes first information based on detecting the first response and determining that the coded tag encodes second information based on detecting the second response.


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