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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2019
Applicant:

Wolff Industries, Inc., Spartanburg, SC (US);

Inventors:

David Wolff, Spartanburg, SC (US);

Kalen Caple, Spartanburg, SC (US);

John Petty, Spartanburg, SC (US);

Assignee:

WOLFF INDUSTRIES, INC., Spartanburg, SC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G05B 2219/42338 (2013.01);
Abstract

A tracking computing system detects tracking indicia provided on or embedded within cutting implements to be deployed at a processing facility. Periodic implement scans can be performed by one or more mobile computing devices to detect tracking indicia and to determine state data associated with the cutting implements. The state data can be determined at different stages within a processing cycle. The absence of state data for a tracking indicium at one or more stages of the processing cycle may be detected and used to initiate a control action with respect to a potentially missing cutting implement.


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