US Patent Issued to Sensormatic Electronics on April 29 for "Magnetically-locking retractable tag with anti-defeat impact protection" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,818, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Magnetically-locking retractable tag with anti-defeat impact protection" was invented by Gopal Chandramowle (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a security tag. The methods comprise: causing a plunger of the security tag to engage a latch of the security tag; preventing, by an anti-defeat structure of the security tag, a disengagement between the plunger and the latch when an impact force is applied to the security tag; and allowing, by the anti-defeat structure, the plunger to disengage the latch whe...