US 11,531,962 B2Granted

Inventory management system

AssigneeEllsworth Corporation

InventorsJeremy Richardson, Christina Gabrielson, James Hazen, Randall T. Witt

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Abstract

An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels, and further includes a current usage state of the attached inventory items. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.

Claims26

Dependent claims

An inventory management system comprising:

one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader, wherein the one or more RFID readers include one or more handheld RFID readers, or the one or more RFID readers are installed in an RFID portal;
a first computer server configured to communicate, via a network connection using wired or wireless means, with one or more client devices, and configured to receive data, via wired or wireless means, gathered by the one or more RFID readers;
wherein the first computer server includes a database for the storage of inventory information, wherein the computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items, the real-time inventory status including a location of the one or more RFID labels, and further including a current usage state of the attached inventory items;
and
wherein the first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.

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Facts

Application: 17/235,513Filed 20 Apr 2021 · continuation
Priority: 13 Oct 2015
Published: US 2021/0241218 A15 Aug 2021
Granted: 20 Dec 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…
G06Q 10/08
Administration; Management: logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
G06Q 10/08726
Using inventory planning: for replenishment processing, procedures, or recommendations using forecasting or optimisation
G06Q 10/08772
By inventory control or reporting using inventory tracking or counting: inventory counting methods

Family

Application62/240,711Us provisional application · filed 13 Oct 2015
PCT/US2016/056821Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Oct 2016
US 2021/0241218 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Aug 2021
Application15/767,278Parent of this continuation
US 11,010,710 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0300671 A1Published application
US 11,531,962 B2This patent

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