Method and apparatus for tracking one or more plants and/or plant based products and/or tracking the sale of products derived from the same, utilizing RFID technology
AssigneeMetrc LLC
InventorsDilek Dagdelen Uysal, Jeffrey Lane Wells
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Abstract
This invention is for tracking at least one plant. A method of this invention comprises: putting at least one seed or at least one stem in a corresponding at least one pot; positioning a corresponding at least one RFID tag with respect to the seed or stem in a manner, wherein the RFID tag comprises a strap; packaging a harvested material into a packaged product and attaching the RFID tag from the potted plant, or a product RFID tag that is associated with the plurality of tags to the packaged product; confirming a request for authorization by a RFID buy card; and after confirming ID information, transferring at least one product.
Claims35
A method of tracking at least one plant, comprising:
- putting at least one seed or at least one stem in a corresponding at least one pot, wherein each pot of the at least one pot contains soil and/or water;
- positioning a corresponding at least one RFID tag with respect to the at least one seed or the at least one stem in a manner that each RFID tag of the at least one RFID tag is associated with the corresponding seed or the corresponding stem;
- after the at least one seed or at least one stem matures transfers into a vegetative state to become at least one potted plant, if each RFID tag of the at least one RFID tag is not yet attached to the corresponding potted plant of the at least one potted plant, attaching the each RFID tag of the at least one RFID tag to the corresponding potted plant of the at least one potted plant;
- after the at least one potted plant matures further, harvesting the at least one potted plant to create a lot or batch of harvested material;
- packaging the harvested material into a packaged product;
- attaching either:
- (i) the at least one RFID tag from the at least one potted plant;
- or
- (ii) a product RFID tag that is associated with the at least one RFID tag,
- to the packaged product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.