ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,905, issued on April 7, was assigned to Muskoka Cabinet Co. Inc. (Alfred, Canada).

"Systems, devices and methods of tracking inventory" was invented by James Buhler (Cranbrook, Canada) and Luke Elias (Cumberland, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods of tracking a piece of inventory are described herein. Each of the systems, devices and methods includes a dowel to be placed inside of a dowel sleeve of the piece of inventory. The dowel includes a first surface configured to be spaced apart from an inner surface of the dowel sleeve and to support a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag thereon. The dowe...