Patent office finds core claims of RFID consumable-tagging patent unpatentable
A Stratasys patent on reading an RFID tag to authenticate 3D printing filament is being unpicked at the US patent office, and its specification openly calls the mechanism digital rights…
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Audi tags paint atomisers with RFID on 28 Ingolstadt robots for demand-driven maintenance
Twenty-eight painting robots in Audi's new topcoat line at Ingolstadt now carry RFID on every atomiser component. Dürr and Kathrein Solutions developed transponders with bespoke antenna geometry that read reliably…
Gumi City Adds RFID Check-In and Rollover Detection to Its Farm Machinery Rental Fleet
Gumi City in South Korea will automate check-in and check-out of its municipal farm machinery rental fleet with RFID, alongside unmanned payment kiosks and IoT rollover detection fitted to the…
Ohio State University launched mobile BuckID NFC credentials in Apple and Samsung wallets
Ohio State University launched Mobile BuckID on 25 August 2026, putting its campus ID in Apple, Google and Samsung wallets for students, faculty and staff in Columbus. 11,100 people had…
Dyson Puts an RFID Tag in Every Brush Head of Its CameraJet Toothbrush
Every brush head on the Dyson CameraJet, the company's first electric toothbrush, carries an RFID tag that counts cleaning sessions and tells the handle which head is fitted. Launched on…
Aligarh municipal commissioner to install RFID tags and QR codes on 260,000 buildings across the city
Aligarh Municipal Corporation plans to tag around 260,000 buildings across its 90 wards so property tax, user charges and fines sit on one digital record. The announcement is billed as…
300,000 documents across 120 libraries tagged with RFID by Conseil départemental de l’Aisne in France
The Aisne department in northern France is fitting RFID chips to 300,000 books, CDs and DVDs and redistributing them across the 120 libraries it supplies. Staff now process 30 items…
Pilot Project uses RFID cards to track some Broken Arrow students riding the school bus
Broken Arrow Public Schools has grown its RFID bus pilot from one elementary school to six, with cards clipped to backpacks and read at the bus door as pupils board…
RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors
The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…
RFID Antennas Demystified: How They Shape Read Performance
Every RFID system relies on an antenna to do the heavy lifting. It is the antenna that defines where, how far, and how reliably tags can be read. Yet antenna…
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