ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,294, issued on Aug. 5.
"Control, monitoring, and/or security, apparatus and method for premises, vehicles, and/or articles" was invented by Raymond Anthony Joao (Yonkers, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including an RFID reader system; a processor; a database which stores information regarding a plurality of second vehicles; a display; and a transmitter. The RFID reader system reads, scans, or detects, an RFID tag assigned to the second vehicle or to each of the plurality of second vehicles. The processor disregards any detection of multiple RFID tags of the second vehicle or each of the plurality of second vehicles....