ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,471, issued on April 15, was assigned to Paytag Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel).
"Automated removal of security tags" was invented by Ori David Levi (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Barak Amtanani (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for security tag removal includes providing a terminal comprising a receptacle, which is configured to receive a magnetic security tag that is attached to an item of merchandise. A wireless transceiver in the terminal reads identification data that is encoded in the security tag while the security tag is in the receptacle. A query is transmitted from the terminal to a server with respect to the iden...