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Symbol Technologies, LLC

2,331Patents
1,123Active
2,331Granted
58Portfolio score

Filing activity: May 31, 1978 → Oct 9, 2023 · 516 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5979757A Method and system for presenting item information using a portable data terminal Physics 942 Expired
US5756981A Optical scanner for reading and decoding one- and-two-dimensional symbologies at variable depths of field including memory efficient high speed image processing means and high accuracy image analysis means Physics 712 Expired
US5337361A Record with encoded data Electricity 566 Expired
US5304786A High density two-dimensional bar code symbol Electricity 559 Expired
US6837436B2 Consumer interactive shopping system Physics 496 Expired
US6347163B2 System for reading two-dimensional images using ambient and/or projected light Physics 471 Expired
US5786582A Optical scanner for reading and decoding one- and two-dimensional symbologies at variable depths of field Physics 426 Expired
US7195157B2 Consumer interactive shopping system Physics 425 Active
US4387297A Portable laser scanning system and scanning methods Physics 416 Expired
US6340114B1 Imaging engine and method for code readers Physics 399 Expired
US4409470A Narrow-bodied, single-and twin-windowed portable laser scanning head for reading bar code symbols Physics 391 Expired
US5319181A Method and apparatus for decoding two-dimensional bar code using CCD/CMD camera Physics 390 Expired
US5029183A Packet data communication network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 380 Expired
US5495097A Plurality of scan units with scan stitching Physics 377 Expired
US6101483A Personal shopping system portable terminal Physics 375 Expired
US5668803A Protocol for packet data communication system Electricity 350 Expired
US5157687A Packet data communication network Electricity 350 Expired
US7039027B2 Automatic and seamless vertical roaming between wireless local area network (WLAN) and wireless wide area network (WWAN) while maintaining an active voice or streaming data connection: systems, methods and program products Electricity 345 Expired
US7917888B2 System and method for building multi-modal and multi-channel applications Physics 345 Active
US6336587B1 Optical code reader for producing video displays and measuring physical parameters of objects Electricity 344 Expired
US5243655A System for encoding and decoding data in machine readable graphic form Physics 328 Expired
US5396054A Bar code reader using scanned memory array Physics 326 Expired
US5471533A Record with encoded data Electricity 325 Expired
US6084528A Intranet scanning terminal system Physics 323 Expired
US6199753A Method and system for presenting item information using a portable data terminal Physics 320 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.