Sensormatic Electronics Corporation

Tyco Fire + Security Gmbh

Shoppertrak Rct Corporation

Padula, Guillermo, H.

Soto, Manuel, A.

Adam Scott Bergman

Manuel A Soto

Steve Edward Trivelpiece

Ronald B Easter

Eric Floyd Riggert

John A Allen

Melwyn F Sequeira

Gopal Chandramowle

Carlos Gomez Garcia

Bjoern Petersen

Sergio M Perez

John J Clark

João Vilaça

Craig Evan Trivelpiece

Channing Everet Miller

David R Noone

Erik Lee Dinh

David Torrecilla

George H West

Thomas P Solaski

Robert Kevin Lynch

Mohammad Mohiuddin

Wing Kei Ho

Steven J Raynesford

Michael Del Busto

Guillermo H Padula

Jack Howard Schneider

Michael Sansur

Amin Shahidi

John Clark

Denis Chiasson

Terry S Will

Ryan D Zelaya

Patrick O'Leary

Joäo Vilaça

Hubert A Patterson

Stewart E Hall

Gopi Subramanian

Brent F Balch

Channing Everett Miller

Douglas Allen Drew

Stanley A Strzelec

Michelangelo Palella

Thomas G Riley

David Torrecilla Puertas

David Patrick McCullough

Ricci Silvio Cerasini

Mikhail Polyakov

Jackie J Cooper

Israel Alexander

Matthew W Wilson

Daniel Mueller

Iraj Ehtezazi Alamdari

Brent Franklin Balch

Everett Miller Channing

Carlos G Garcia

João VILAÇA

Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting a security event at an establishment, obtaining, based on detecting the security event, vehicle information associated with a vehicle used in conjunction with the security event, storing the vehicle information, detecting, based on the vehicle information, the vehicle arriving at the establishment or another establishment, and generating, based on detecting the vehicle arriving at the establishment or another establishment, a notification that the vehicle has arrived at the establishment or another establishment.

Systems and methods for repeat offender anti-theft notification based on vehicle identification

A secured article may include a tag set comprising a first tag and a second tag, each tag attached to the article. A secured article may include a disablement structure. A secured article may include attached to the article in physical proximity to the first tag. A secured article may include in electromagnetic relationship with the second tag. A secured article may include disabling operation of the second tag absent altering the electromagnetic relationship.

Multi-tag article securement

Security event characterization and response includes, for each of a plurality of first security data collection events determining that the first event has started. Collecting, in a database, an event data record associated with the first event determined to have started, the event data record comprising gait information of a person associated with the first event. For a given security data collection event later than the plurality of first events, determining that the given event has started. Detecting given event data comprising gait information of a person associated with the given event determined to have started. Determining a similarity meeting a threshold similarity between the query and one or more sets of records of the database. Initiating an action based on the one or more sets of records of the database determined to meet a threshold similarity with the query.

Security event characterization and response

Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for electronic article surveillance (EAS), comprising transmitting an acousto-magnetic (AM) interrogation signal into an AM interrogation zone of an EAS system. The AM interrogation zone and a wireless communication zone overlapping to form a zone of interest. The wireless communication zone employing a wireless communication technology other than AM. Indicating, by the EAS system, a presence of a first tag of the EAS system in the zone of interest upon a concurrent detection of both i) a response signal of the first tag via the wireless communication technology and ii) an AM response signal of the first tag in response to the AM interrogation signal.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag location verification using acousto-magnetic detection

Systems and methods for operating a Security Tag ('ST') coupled to an item. The methods comprise: storing first Item Related Information (“IRI”) is a datastore of ST that is associated with an output device and second IRI in an integrated RFID element of ST; receiving third IRI at a microcontroller of ST; performing comparison operations by the microcontroller to compare the third IRI with the first and/or second IRI; using the third IRI to write over the first and/or second IRI based on results of the comparison operations; and synchronizing advertised information and register information for the item by outputting the third IRI from the output device and the integrated RFID element.

Systems and methods for providing a security tag with synchronized display

An electronic article surveillance ('EAS') tag for an EAS system, comprising an antenna, a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) chip configured to transmit and/or receive a wireless signal via the antenna; and a magnetically-actuatable switch configured to move between a first position and a second position. The switch is configured to electrically couple the RFID chip to the antenna in the first position. The switch is further configured to electrically decouple the RFID chip from the antenna in the second position.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag with deactivatable link

Systems and methods for verifying a detachment of a security tag from an article. The methods comprise: using a voltage induced in an internal circuit of the security tag by a magnetic field generated by a detaching unit to power a controller of the security tag; receiving, by the security tag, a first signal sent from the detaching unit; selectively supplying power to an electro-mechanical lock mechanism of the security tag for a certain amount of time to cause a pin to be released from a lock, in response to the first signal; and communicating, from the security tag, a second signal indicating whether or not the pin was released. The voltage is no longer induced in the internal circuit by the detaching unit when the second signal indicates that the pin was released.

Security tag with tack position feedback

Electronic Article Surveillance in which a radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogation signal is transmitted, over a first window of time, into an RFID interrogation zone of the EAS system. A plurality of response signals are detected from a first RFID tag of the EAS system responding to the interrogation signal. Over a second window of time overlapping at least in part with the first window of time, image data is captured within a field of view. The field of view and the RFID interrogation zone overlap to form a zone of interest. Movement of a non-tag object is characterized during the first window of time based on the image data. Whether the first RFID tag is associated with the characterized non-tag object is determined based on a comparison of the detected plurality of response signals and the characterized movement of the non-tag object.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag location verification using image data

Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a person of interest exiting or entering an establishment. In an example, the system may derive a confidence factor that for an individual exiting an establishment based on image recognition and device identification technologies when the individual when a security event, such as an alarm, is set off. The system may also identify an individual entering an establishment as a person of interest based on the confidence score by using the same technologies.

Systems and methods for repeat offender anti-theft notification

An EAS system first transmits a radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogation signal into an RFID interrogation zone of an EAS system. The system then first receives at least one RFID response signal from a first RFID tag of the system responding to the interrogation signal. The system second transmits a non-RFID RF signal into a second zone. The second zone and the RFID interrogation zone overlap to form a zone of interest. The system second receives, from the first RFID tag, an indication that the first RFID tag received the second transmission. The system determines, based on receiving both the RFID response signal from a first RFID tag and the indication that the first RFID tag received the second transmission, that the first RFID tag is in the zone of interest.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag location verification using short range communication

Systems and methods for operating a marker that involve receiving, by a Radio Frequency Identification ('RFID') element of the marker, an RFID deactivation signal; and responsive to the RFID deactivation signal, supplying power to a detuner element of the marker so that the detuner element switches from a first state to a second state. The marker's resonant frequency is changed to a first value that falls outside of an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) systems operating frequency range when the detuner element switches from the first state to the second state.

Systems and methods for radio frequency identification enabled deactivation of acousto-magnetic ferrite based marker

Deploying at each transition between separate areas of a facility a plurality of RFID reader antennas. Each antenna is deployed at a given transition covering a span of the given transition from a different perspective such that each point in the span is covered by at least two antennas. The antennas of a first transition between a first area and a second area of the separate areas detect, and in combination with an RFID system in communication with the antennas of the first transition, a tag known to have been in the first area. The RFID system identifies an item associated with the detected tag as moving to the second area. The antennas of a particular transition of the second area subsequently detect, in combination with the RFID system in communication therewith, the tag, and identifying the detected item as leaving the second area for an area across the particular transition.

Transition zone RFID tag management

An apparatus and method for unlocking a security tag that is connected to an article. The apparatus includes an unlocking device configured to provide an unlock signal or force to a security tag allowing for the security tag to be removed from the article. The apparatus further includes an outer housing having an unlocking surface at least partially disposed above the unlocking device, wherein the unlocking surface includes a continuous surface area defined by a first surface area connected to a second surface area. In one aspect, the second surface area is tactily distinct from the first surface area and the second surface area includes an alignment feature configured to indicate a detachment zone that corresponds with a source of the unlock signal or force.

Detacher for self-detaching tag

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for laser turning and attaching RFID tags to products. Such methods and systems may include a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The methods and systems may include determining a characteristic of a conductive trace on a substrate to be incorporated into an item to configure a tag performance in view of at least one of a dielectric property or a tuning property of the item. The methods and systems may further include a laser to alter the conductive trace on the substrate to have the characteristic to define an antenna for the tag. The methods and systems may further include an attaching device configured to attach a communications enabled device to the substrate so as to form an electrical connection between the communications enabled device and the antenna to form the tag.

Systems and methods for laser tuning and attaching RFID tags to products

Systems and methods for integrating tags with items. The methods comprise: dynamically determining a length of each metal thread to be incorporated into or trace to be disposed on a item to optimize tag performance in view of dielectric and tuning properties of the item. In the metal thread scenarios, the methods also involve: creating a metal thread having the length that was dynamically determined; and sewing the metal thread into the item being produced to form an antenna for a first tag. In the trace scenarios, the methods also involve forming the trace on the item being produced to form an antenna for a first tag. Next, at least a communications enabled device is attached to the item so as to form an electrical coupling or connection between the communications enabled device and the at least one antenna.

Systems and methods for providing tags adapted to be incorporated with or in items

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Adam Scott Bergman