US 12,230,112 B2
Article surveillance tag
Channing Everet Miller, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US); Edward Paul Ellers, Boca Raton, FL (US); Fernando Bienvenido Moronta, Deerfield Beach, FL (US); and Laurentiu Petrisor, Boynton Beach, FL (US)
Assigned to Sensormatic Electronics, LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed by Sensormatic Electronics, LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/064,042.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/288,402, filed on Dec. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0186743 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G08B 13/24 (2006.01); G08B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 13/2434 (2013.01) [G08B 7/06 (2013.01); G08B 13/2431 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article surveillance tag comprising:
a housing;
a switch including a first contact coupled with the housing and a second contact configured to be coupled with an article, the second contact is movable relative to the first contact; and
a processing circuit configured to detect an electrical connection when the first contact and the second contact touch, and further configured to detect an electrical disconnection between the first contact and the second contact when the first contact and the second contact do not touch, and trigger an alarm upon detecting the electrical disconnection.