ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,380, issued on April 7, was assigned to DEKA Products Ltd. Partneship (Manchester, N.H.).

"RFID system and method" was invented by James J. Dattolo (Manchester, N.H.), David Blumberg Jr. (Epsom, N.H.) and Eric J. Vanwyk (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RFID system includes an RFID antenna assembly configured to be positioned on a product module assembly of a processing system. The product module assembly is configured to releasably engage at least one product container. A first RFID tag assembly configured to be positioned on the at least one product container. The at least one product container is configured to p...