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Table of RFID Related Patent Classifications

The following list shows US Patent Office classes and subclasses which were related to patent searches done for issued 2003 RFID patents.  These classes and subclasses are included here because the patent office referenced these classes as related art during processing of the year 2003 patents analyzed for this report.  The sections are listed here to show the wide range of categories that RFID related technology has penetrated.  Subclasses judged to have titles relevant to RFID are shown with titles.  Subclasses judged to have titles which are not relevant are shown only as numeric entries.  For example 29/25.42  which is section 29, subsection 25.42.

Main class headings are shown in bold when there are RFID relevant subclasses.

Italicized headings are paraphrased patent office class / subclass headings, and not the full headings.

Numbers in ( ) after a heading show the number of patents in that class when this report was prepared.

Titled subsections that do not show a number of patents are intermediate subclass headings that have no assigned patents.

The patent classification system is a hierarchical or branching system where lower subclasses are uniquely associated with higher classes or subclasses.  This relationship is shown in the table by indenting of subclass headings.

 

Section Title

Subsections and Titles                                 (Number of patents in subsection)

   029 Metal working

29/25.42  29/423  29/600  29/825

   040 Card, picture, or sign exhibiting

40/310  40/311

   073 Measuring and testing

 

73/146  73/146.2  73/146.5  73/152.03

   174 Electricity: conductors and insulators

174/52.2  174/253  174/257  174/260   174/261

   194 Check-actuated control mechanisms

194/214

  235 Registers

 

235/375  Systems Controlled By Data Bearing Records                               (xxx)

235/379  Banking Systems                                                                                 (xxx)

235/380  Credit Or Identification Card Systems                                             (xxx)

235/382  Permitting Access                                                                              (780)

235/384  Transportation                                                                                    (376)

235/385  Inventory                                                                                             (498)

235/435  Coded Record Sensors                                                                      (114)

235/462.46  Wireless link   (e.g., RF, IR, etc.)                                                 (111)

 

Not applicable to RFID

235/25  235/29  235/61.11  235/288  235/309  235/451  235/458    235/461  235/462.01

235/470  235/472.02  235/487  235/488  235/489  235/492  235/494

   257 Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)

257/297  257/422  257/659  257/660  257/666  257/678  257/698  257/786  257/787  257/921

   273 Amusement devices: games

273/148R  Game Accessories                                                                           (327)

273/440  Physical Skill Or Ability                                                                    (123)

273/446    One participant at a time competes                                                 (53)

273/454    Electric                                                                                               (146)

 

 

6 more pages of tables follow ………

 

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