Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Premark Feg L.l.c.

John A Dusing

Robert S Davis

Randy L Blankley, Jr

James E Highley, Jr

Fredrick D Knoop

Debra L Dyer

Jill Marie Broering

Santos Juan-Castellanos

Bryan S Combs

Jr Blankley Randy L

Jill M Broering

Jr Highley James E

Randy L Blankley

James E Highley

A scale includes a weigh station for receiving items to be weighed, an operator interface configured to display information associated with scale operations and a controller operably coupled to the operator interface to effect display of information. The operator interface may be in the form of a touch-screen display that is used to facilitate ease of use and scale adjustment.

Food product scale

A control associated with a label printer and RF unit is operable to carry out an RFID frequency selection process in which: (a) a given label is moved into the certain location along the label path; (b) for each of a plurality of frequencies: (i) the RF unit is operated to attempt to read and/or write to the label RFID tag of the given label multiple times; and (ii) the control records success data for attempts made in (b)(i); and (c) the control identifies and selects for subsequent use in operation of the RFID unit a multiplicity of the plurality of frequencies based upon results obtained in steps (b)(i) and (b)(ii).

Printer and scale with initialization process for selecting RFID frequency band for communicating with RFID labels

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Mason, OH, United States of America

John A Dusing