ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,997, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VenaResources Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Adaptive RFID inventory system" was invented by Jonathan Michael Butler (Gainesville, Ga.).

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, a RFID interrogator subsystem, a multi-frequency interrogator subsystem including fixed multi-frequency interrogators and at least one mobile RFID interrogator, and at least one beacon tag. ...