US 12,437,168 B1
Method and apparatus determining RFID viability
Brian Keith Blank, Cortland, OH (US); and Christopher Scott Williams, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to Engineered Products of Ohio, LLC, Cortland, OH (US)
Filed by Engineered Products of Ohio, LLC, Cortland, OH (US)
Filed on May 31, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/679,979.
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10366 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A product verification system comprising:
a reader;
a trigger mechanism coupled with the reader;
a controller coupled with the trigger mechanism and the reader;
a memory coupled with the controller, said memory having stored therein a database of information concerning articles of manufacture; and
programming provided in the controller, said programming configured to control the trigger mechanism and the reader;
wherein the reader is operable to interrogate an article that comes into a field of view of the trigger mechanism;
wherein the programming is configured to determine if an RFID tag and/or a barcode is applied to the article based on the interrogation; and
wherein the reader is an RFID reader which includes an RFID transmitter, and wherein the programming is further configured to automatically calibrate the RFID reader by setting a transmission power level of the RFID transmitter to a predetermined maximum power level.