ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,451, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Alexandria, Va.).

"Parser for part identifiers" was invented by Yien Hoong Chew (Kent, Wash.), John J. Yu (Seattle), Joseph Kreitle (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Nguyen C. Lam (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system that uses a configuration file to store the parsing instructions for the information encoded by the RFID tags. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor receives, from a radio frequency identifier (RFID) scanner, a first binary sequence produced by scanning ...