Identifying apparatus
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1. An identifying apparatus to identify objects having electronic identification devices (EID), the identifying apparatus including:
- multiple EID reading means positioned in a spaced apart relationship defining multiple pathways through which the objects can pass in a single file and wherein each EID reading means is adapted to read any EID passing through any one of the multiple pathways; and
computing means adapted to record each EID only once irrespective of the number of times an EID is read by any one of the multiple EID reading means.
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Abstract
An identifying apparatus which can identify objects having electronic identification devices (EIDs). The identifying apparatus includes multiple EID readers positioned in a spaced apart relationship to define multiple pathways so that EIDs carried by the objects can pass in a single file through any one of the multiple pathways. Each EID reader is adapted to read any EID as the objects pass through any one of the pathways. Each EID carried by an object is recorded only once irrespective of the number of times an EID reader reads an EID.
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1. An identifying apparatus to identify objects having electronic identification devices (EID), the identifying apparatus including:
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multiple EID reading means positioned in a spaced apart relationship defining multiple pathways through which the objects can pass in a single file and wherein each EID reading means is adapted to read any EID passing through any one of the multiple pathways; and computing means adapted to record each EID only once irrespective of the number of times an EID is read by any one of the multiple EID reading means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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