In March, 2012, all of the UHF Gen2 RFID chip manufacturers agreed to support Multi-vendor Chip-based Serialization (MCS), a voluntary implementation of a GS1 guideline for encoding 96-bit Serialized Global Trade Identification Numbers (SGTIN-96) into UHF Gen2 RFID tags. See:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?9369
In June 2013, ADASA and Accelerate Ventures claimed that the GS1 guideline uses US 8,228,198. See:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130606005357/en/Accelerate-Ventures-ADASA-Join-Forces
Does MCS use 8228198?