ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,642, issued on Feb. 24.
"System and method for tracking inventory items" was invented by Brian Earp (Merrimack, N.H.), Jan-Philipp Mohr (Hamburg, Germany) and Ingo Nadler (Bad Breisig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system (100) and method for tracking an inventory item (102, 202, 304) within a facility. The system comprises a unique identification tag (208, 306) for the inventory item and a plurality of cameras (104, 106, 204, 206) positioned within the facility. The unique identification tag is visible in images (302, 308, 312) captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras. An image processor (108) con...