US Patent Issued to CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS on May 19 for "Virtual shielding system and method for inventory tracking" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,824, issued on May 19, was assigned to CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS INC. (Thorofare, N.J.).

"Virtual shielding system and method for inventory tracking" was invented by Thomas Craig Weakley (Simpsonville, S.C.), Sergio Ramos Jubierre (Barcelona, Spain) and Alan Green (Clinton, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory monitoring system and process for monitoring inventory is shown and described herein. The system and process includes an RFID reader configured to collect or receive product code data, location data, and secondary metric data of inventory RFID tags relative to that of other RFID tags or markers for determining the location ...