Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specified housing
Patent
1996-04-04
2000-08-01
Zimmerman, Brian
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specified housing
3405727, 340 101, 342 42, H04Q 100
Patent
active
060973013
ABSTRACT:
A method of adjusting the 2-way communication range of an RFID system to assist a human operator to individually handle and interrogate a plurality of tagged objects, such as suitcases, that each include an RFID tag transceiver. An RFID interrogator transceiver is mounted on the human operator. The 2-way communication range between the interrogator transceiver and the tag transceivers is adjusted to only slightly exceed the closest distance between the interrogator and the tag while the operator is handling the tagged object. Preferably, the 2-way communication range is short enough that other tagged objects will remain outside the communication range and will not respond to messages from the interrogator. Another aspect of the invention is a method of verifying whether an object to be transported has reached its intended destination. In this aspect, an interrogator transceiver at a first destination interrogates an RFID tag transceiver on the object, and in response the tag transmits its intended destination.
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Micron Communications Inc.
Stern Robert J.
Zimmerman Brian
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