ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,326, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Inventory event based movement of RFID tagged items" was invented by Declan Tarrant (Killorglin, Ireland), Matthew Marchesano (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), David Patrick McCullough (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Jay Lickfett (San Diego), Mayuri Sarupuri (Brea, Calif.) and Suresh Kumar (Ladera Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide streamline techniques to alert sales personal/associate of an item in need of replenishment on the sales floor or in the stock room, and provide real-time data indicating unit...