ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,555, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ferret Systems Inc. (San Diego).
"Method for activating an electronic tracking label via label printing" was invented by Gary Leung (San Jose, Calif.), Venu Gutlapalli (San Diego) and Joseph Reddy (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for activating tracking labels of an item tracking system that uses a printer to activate labels as they are printed for use. Electronic tracking labels may have a removable portion that breaks an electrical circuit when removed; breaking the circuit activates the label. A printer with a label cutter may be used when labels are prepared for use, and ...