ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,425, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Increasing accuracy of RFID-tag transactions" was invented by Robert Jerome Colwill (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Aaron M. McDaniel (Seattle) and Alpeshkumar Manubhai Vaghasia (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems for enabling a just-walk-out (JWO) facility in which users may enter the facility, physically pick one or more items, and walk out of the facility to rent, purchase, or otherwise acquire the items without needing to perform a manual checkout for the items. In some instances, a tag, such as an RFID tag, may ...