Handling System for Exception RFID Labels

• US 20080297310A1
• Filed: 05/30/2007
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Callahan Cellular LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Binforma Group Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Onderko, John C.
• Granted Patent: US 7,817,045 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07327 Passive means, e.g. Faraday cages Faraday-type protection of electric circuits in general H05K9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

A device for nullifying an exception RFID tag associated with a product or package includes a label with a replacement RFID tag configured thereon. The label is configured for placement on a package or product adjacent to the exception RFID tag. An electromagnetic shield is configured on the label and has a size and configuration so as to extend over the exception RFID tag when the label is placed adjacent thereto so as to disable subsequent reading of the exception RFID tag.

Claims

1. A device for nullifying an exception RFID tag associated with a product or package, said device comprising:

a label with a replacement RFID tag configured thereon, said label configured for placement on a package or product adjacent to the exception RFID tag; and

an electromagnetic shield configured on said label, said electromagnetic shield having a size and configuration so as to extend over the exception RFID tag when said label is placed adjacent thereto so as to disable subsequent reading of the exception RFID tag.

2. The device as in claim 1, wherein said label comprises an adhesive-backed base substrate.

3. The device as in claim 2, wherein said electromagnetic shield comprises an additional substrate attached to said base substrate.

4. The device as in claim 2, wherein said electromagnetic shield comprises an extension of said base substrate.

5. The device as in claim 2, wherein said electromagnetic shield comprises an adhesive on at least one side thereof for adhesive attachment over the exception RFID tag.

6. The device as in claim 1, wherein said replacement RFID tag contains the same information regarding the product or package as the exception RFID tag.

7. The device as in claim 1, wherein said replacement RFID tag contains different or additional information regarding the product or package as compared to the exception RFID tag.

8. The device as in claim 1, wherein said electromagnetic shield is spaced from said replacement RFID tag so as to be incapable of extending over said replacement RFID tag.

9. The device as in claim 1, wherein said electromagnetic shield is configured to additionally detune said exception RFID tag so as to prevent reading thereof from any relative position.

10. An RFID device for association with any manner of article, comprising:

a base substrate having a first and a second RFID tag configured thereon, said first and second RFID tags containing the same or different stored data; and

an electromagnetic shield configured with said base substrate and having a size and configuration so as to extend over said first RFID tag in a first position, and over said second RFID tag in a second position.

11. The device as in claim 10, wherein said electromagnetic shield extends generally transversely from said base substrate between said first and second RFID tags.

12. The device as in claim 10, wherein said electromagnetic shield comprises an additional substrate attached to said base substrate.

13. The device as in claim 10, wherein said electromagnetic shield comprises an extension of said base substrate.

14. The device as in claim 10, wherein said electromagnetic shield comprises an adhesive applied to opposite sides thereof for selective adhesive attachment over either of said first or second RFID tags.