US Patent Issued to Sensormatic Electronics on Dec. 9 for "Privacy for radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,766, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Privacy for radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag" was invented by Lauri Johannes Huhtasalo (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bar code may be integrated with a product, and a management platform may be configured to: receive a query for the mode information of the RFID chip via the bar code, identify the RFID chip based on the bar code; and transmit an indication of a mode of the RFID chip. The bar code may include a two-dimensional code, a quick response (QR code), a three-dimensional code, and/or any graphical or visual machi...