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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Clinton S. Hartmann, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Clinton S. Hartmann, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
RF SAW Components, Incorporated, Richardson, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K007/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) identification tag and methods of operating and manufacturing the tag. In one embodiment, the tag includes: (1) a piezoelectric substrate having a SAW transducer located thereon, (2) a group of slots arranged by both pulse position and phase position on said substrate; and (3) a number of reflectors distributed among the slots such that the reflectors encode a number by both pulse position and phase position.