Intermec Grants RFID Patent Licenses to Honeywell

(Business News & Technology News, 7 Jan 2008)

Honeywell Inc. has become a Rapid Start licensee under Intermec Technologies Corp.'s RFID patents following its acquisition of Hand Held Products Inc.

Intermec holds more than 154 RFID patents covering broad areas of supply chain applications. Intermec's patents cover all global standards and classes for the practice of RFID technology, including EPCglobal Class 0, Class 1, Class 1 Generation 2, ISO, ETSI and others. Honeywell's license will give it access to this technology with respect to portable RFID readers.

Honeywell joins 22 other licensees under Intermec's RFID patents, including Accu-sort, Avery Dennison, AWID, Cisco, Datamax, EM Micro, Feig Electronics, Hand Held Products, LXE, Motorola, Philips Semiconductor, PSC, Psion Teklogix, Sato, Sharp Corp., Symbol Technologies, Texas Instruments, Thingmagic, Toppan Printing, Tyco, Transcore and Zebra Technologies.

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