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Personal articles tracking

US7271715B2 · kind B2 · utility

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6Claims
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Filing dateSep 16, 2003
Grant dateSep 18, 2007
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Expiry dateMay 31, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08B13/2462
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A personal articles tracking system, method and apparatus. In the system of the invention, a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader can be coupled to a tracking processor. A data store further can be configured to store tag data from corresponding RFID tags. Finally, an alert can be programmed to activate when the tracking processor no longer can sense within range of the RFID reader an RFID tag having corresponding tag data stored in the data store.

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