US Patent Issued to Sato on March 17 for "Method and system for determining the location of an item in a storage system" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,455, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sato Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for determining the location of an item in a storage system" was invented by Jeff Gray (St. Peters, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the location of a plurality of tagged items in a storage system comprises scanning (540) for tags with a first antenna at a plurality of power levels, analysing (560) the scan to identify each tag of interest sighted by the first antenna at each power level of the plurality of power levels, and scanning (540) for tags with at least one further antenna at a plurality of power levels. The metho...