ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,632, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sato Corp. (Tokyo).
"Inventory tracking" was invented by Ganesh Nagendra (St Peters, Australia), Graham Murdoch (St Peters, Australia) and George Rezk (St. Peters, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory tracking system (100) for use with an agitator (200) comprises an RFID antenna system (102) for detecting RFID tags located in the agitator and an RFID reader (104) in communication with the RFID antenna system (102). The inventory tracking system (100) also comprises a sensor system (106) configured to monitor a state of the agitator. The RFID reader (104) receives a signal indic...