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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2002
Eiji Okamura, Tokyo, JP;
Leading Information Technology, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An employee theft control system includes a merchandise control ID tag that is attached to an article and stores merchandise identification data, a personal ID tag that stores data that identifies an employee and has a storage area into which merchandise identification data can be written and read from which said data can be read, a read/write device that reads data from and writes data into the merchandise control ID tag and the personal ID tag , and a verification device that verifies the merchandise identification data read out from the merchandise control ID tag and the personal ID tag by the read/write device . At the location from which merchandise is to be removed, the merchandise identification data is read out from the merchandise control ID tag on the merchandise to be removed by the employee and stored in the personal ID tag ; and at the location into which the merchandise is to be brought in, the merchandise identification data is read from the merchandise control ID tag on the merchandise to be brought in by the employee and the merchandise identification data stored in the personal ID tag is read, which are then verified against each other.