US Patent Issued to United Parcel Service of America on July 8 for "Detecting equipment state via tag-reader modulations" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,945, issued on July 8, was assigned to United Parcel Service of America Inc. (Atlanta).

"Detecting equipment state via tag-reader modulations" was invented by Patrick Wall (Atlanta), Jeffrey Radaker (Atlanta) and Julian Bell (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, various embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, apparatus, and technologies, and/or the like for generating predicted states of apparatus, equipment, items, and/or the like based at least in part on associated tag-reader modulations such as, for example, a presence of an RFID tag, an absence of an RFID tag, a combination of the two, a...