Inventory monitoring of live-storage systems by means of RFID

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8955748
APP PUB NO 20130075470A1
SERIAL NO

13703234

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The present invention relates to a radio-frequency identification communications system, RFID communications system, for monitoring the inventory of a live storage system, comprising at least one first and one second stationary RFID antenna (5, 6) for transmitting data; and an RFID transponder (2) attached to an object or a group of objects (1), wherein the RFID transponder (2) electronically stores a code of the object or the group of objects (1), and wherein the first RFID antenna (5) is placed in an input region, and the second RFID antenna (6) is placed in an output region of a storage track of the live storage system, in order to register the object or the group of objects (1) on the basis of the code of the RFID transponder (2).

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BROOKS AUTOMATION US LLC15 ELIZABETH DRIVE CHELMSFORD MA 01824

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dittrich, Gerald Thurnau, DE 3 14
Lorenz, Alexander Schleiz, DE 16 534

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