US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on June 17 for "In-scope and out-of-scope RFID-based item management" (Arkansas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,487, issued on June 17, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"In-scope and out-of-scope RFID-based item management" was invented by Sara Vaught (Centerton, Ark.), Jeffrey S. Cruz (Bentonville, Ark.), Donald Busse (Bentonville, Ark.), Mike Graen (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Abiy Hailemichael (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a system for managing inventory updates based on RFID data using product in-scope and out-of-scope rules (PISOS). The PISOS system adjusts on-hand inventory count values for an item upward based on item scan data if the scan data identifies a higher number of instances o...