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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Daryl S. Hamilton, Upper Marlboro, MD (US);
Daryl S. Hamilton, Upper Marlboro, MD (US);
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for tracking the nesting of delivery items can include using a passive RFID-type or an auto-detection type communication device to determine which mail handler picks up a particular tray from a location, such as the end of a conveyor system. When the mail handler places the tray in a container, another RFID-type device can be used to detect into which container the mail handler placed the tray. This information may then be passively and/or wirelessly transmitted to an application server that may store the information in a database to verify and validate, in real time, that the tray was placed into the correct container. These methods and systems are equally applicable to other nesting environments, including for example, the placing of containers into transportation vehicles.