ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,168, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Engineered Products of Ohio LLC (Cortland, Ohio).

"Method and apparatus determining RFID viability" was invented by Brian Keith Blank (Cortland, Ohio) and Christopher Scott Williams (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of verifying a plurality of articles of manufacture are provided with RFID tags and/or barcode labels and that any applied RFID tag and/or barcode label is encoded with correct information about the article and/or a manufacturer thereof. An automatic calibration process is also disclosed. The system includes a reader; a trigger mechanism coupled with the re...