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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Mustafa A. Harcar, Centerton, AR (US);
Andrew J. Rizkallah, Bentonville, AR (US);
Olivia H. Bozik, Piedmont, SC (US);
Bryan J. Rogers, Centerton, AR (US);
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, methods of tracking uniquely labeled products are provided. An item representing one unit of a consumer product may be labeled with a unique label via automatically generating a random identifier unique to the item, associating the randomly-generated identifier with the item in a record of an electronic database, creating a label comprising a substrate and the randomly-generated identifier, applying the label to the item, and tracking the item via obtaining the randomly-generated identifier from the label. Products labeled with unique identifiers via such methods are also provided.