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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Target Brands, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventor:
Robert F. Foster, Ramsey, MN (US);
Assignee:
Target Brands, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G08B 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 16/78 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 16/7867 (2019.01); G06F 16/9554 (2019.01); G08B 13/2402 (2013.01);
Abstract
A limited number of items are identified as high-theft items and RFID tags are added to only units of high-theft items. At periodic times during a day, a mobile scanner is taken to each area of a store that contains high-theft items and the mobile scanner is used to read signals from the RFID tags of only the units of high-theft items and thereby generate a periodic inventory count of the high-theft items. The periodic inventory counts for each high-theft item are then electronically stored.