ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,611, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nedap N.V. (Groenlo, Netherlands).
"Inventory tracking" was invented by Danny Jacobus Theodorus Haak (Enschede, Netherlands) and Paul Jasper Compaijen (Deventer, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory system is provided herein, comprising a first inventory system unit and a second inventory system unit. The first inventory system unit comprises at least a configuration transmitter to generate a configuration field inside a first field zone to configure one or more UHF RFID tags within said first field zone into a configured state deviating from a default state. The second inven...