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US 2019/0102855 A1Published application
Tracking Products with Chain of Custody using IOT Devices
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJeffrey M. Achtermann, Rahul Gupta, Arnaud A. Mathieu, Maharaj Mukherjee
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Abstract
Methods for chain of custody tracking for an object are described. Several sets of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors are organized in a network. Each set of sensors is configured to record one or more events relating to the object. Each event includes an event time, an event location, and an entity that is a custodian for the object at the time of the event. When the object changes custodians, proper custodianship is verified based on input from at least one set of IoT sensors.
Claims7
A method for chain of custody tracking for an object, comprising:
- organizing a plurality of sets of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors in a network, wherein each set of sensors is configured to record one or more events relating to the object, each event including an event time, an event location, and an entity that is a custodian for the object at the time of the event;
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- in response to the object changing custodians, verifying proper custodianship based on information received from at least one set of IoT sensors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.