US Patent Issued to Afero on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus and method for verification of product package contents and activation of corresponding devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,807, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Afero Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for verification of product package contents and activation of corresponding devices" was invented by Scott Bartlett (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and machine-readable medium are described for verification of devices in a product package. An optical code on a product package is scanned at a point-of-sale (POS) system and a digital code generated; an RF burst is generated to activate devices in the product package which transmit identification information. A device manifest is used indicating devices ...