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.
Claims16
An RFID tag, comprising:
- dynamic data elements,
- wherein the dynamic data elements comprise one or more of the following:
- a tag TID value;
- an OPC Name:
- an OPC License No.;
- an Order Date and Day Batch No. for the RFID tag;
- and
- an RFID tag Electronic Product Code (EPC), and
- wherein an EPC format of the RFID tag Electronic Product Code is in a form of 24 hex characters,
- wherein the 24 hex characters are as follows:
- a first number of hex characters represent a header;
- a second number of hex characters represent an install ID;
- a third number of hex characters represent a tag version;
- a fourth number of hex characters represent a license no.;
- and
- a fifth number of hex characters represent a serial no., and
- wherein the first number plus the second number plus the third number plus the fourth number plus the fifth number equals 24.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.