ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,851, issued on March 31, was assigned to Vena Resources Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Adaptive RFID inventory system" was invented by Jonathan Michael Butler (Gainesville, Ga.) and Timm Sebastian Redder (Ladera Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive inventory management system for use in a materials handling facility storing a plurality of items that are each associated with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The management system including a global inventory database subsystem and a RFID interrogator subsystem that are configured to read the unique identifier of the RFID tag associated with each of the plurality...