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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2016
Symbol Technologies, Llc, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Thomas E. Wulff, Brookhaven, NY (US);
Symbol Technologies, LLC, Holtsville, NY (US);
Abstract
Theft of an item from a department of a venue having a department-specific, point-of-sale (POS) station for completing a transaction of the item prior to authorized removal of the item from the department, is deterred by sensing and tracking movement of a target associated with the item from the department by deploying a plurality of sensing units overhead at the venue, and by generating an alert when the sensing units sense and track that the target associated with the item has bypassed the department-specific POS station without the transaction having been completed for the item at the department-specific POS station. Security personnel execute a theft-deterrent action in response to the alert.