Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Location sensing technology for detecting asset location
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Application No.: US17137608Application Date: 2020-12-30
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Publication No.: US11742964B2Publication Date: 2023-08-29
- Inventor: Mallory Freeman , Timothy Major , Matthew Britton , Lauren Skorb
- Applicant: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: United Parcel Services of America, Inc.
- Current Assignee: United Parcel Services of America, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04B17/318
- IPC: H04B17/318 ; G06K7/10

Abstract:
Various embodiments employ multiple readers and tags in fixed locations in different geographical areas and/or along different storage units. This allows for more granular or precise location sensing. Particular embodiments employ multiple environment tags in various geographical locations and within multiple storage units. Using this new infrastructure setup, some embodiments can perform new functionality by predicting whether a target asset is in a particular geographical location, predict whether the asset is within a particular storage unit based on the proportion of readers mapped to that shelf which are actually reading the tag on the asset, and/or can predict where an asset's exact location in the located storage unit is based on comparing indications of signal strength values between each reader and tag in the storage unit with other indications of signal strength values between each reader and the tag that is attached to the asset.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220207473A1 Location Sensing Technology For Detecting Asset Location Public/Granted day:2022-06-30
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