Honeywell becomes a Rapid Start licensee under Intermec Technologies’ RFID patents following its acquisition of Hand Held Products, Inc.
Intermec, the automated data capture technologies company, holds more than 154 RFID patents covering 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.
With the addition of Honeywell to its group of RFID licensees, Intermec continues to support RFID end users and suppliers by ensuring that the market has an ample supply of high-quality, properly licensed RFID equipment from global manufacturers.