System and method for inlay validation employing inlay indexing

A system for carrying out a testing procedure on wireless inlays that are carried on a web, said inlays being spaced on the web at a pitch (P), said system comprising:

• a plurality of singulation readers that simultaneously interrogate a plurality of inlays during a read operation, each singulation reader interrogating a single inlay during each read operation and determining whether or not each interrogated inlay is functioning within defined parameters;
• wherein said inlays are indexed into groups, with each index group comprising a number of inlays equal to a number (N) of said plurality of singulation readers;
• wherein said plurality of singulation readers are spaced apart from one another by a distance equal to the pitch (P) of the inlay spacing times a multiplier (M), wherein the multiplier (M) is a whole number greater than 1 and less than the number (N) of singulation readers, and wherein the multiplier (M) is selected such that during the testing procedure, all inlays are read by a singulation reader, but no inlays are read by more than one singulation reader;
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• wherein the web is advanced by one index group between each read operation.