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Systems and methods for labeling consumer items with unique identifiers

  • US 9,990,605 B2
  • Filed: 04/18/2017
  • Issued: 06/05/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for facilitating tracking, by retailers, of retail items labeled by the retailers with unique randomly-generated identifiers, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of retail items, each of the retail items being an individual unit of a consumer product and including;

    a manufacturer label including a uniform product code indicating a manufacturer of the consumer product and a product code of the consumer product; and

    a retailer label separate from the manufacturer label and comprising a substrate and a randomly-generated identifier unique to the individual unit of the consumer product, the randomly-generated identifier of each of the individual units of the consumer product being distinct from one another;

    an inventory management database configured to associate the randomly-generated identifiers on the retailer labels with their respective individual units of the consumer product, wherein the randomly-generated identifiers on the retailer labels do not identify the individual units of the consumer products independent of the association of the randomly-generated identifiers with their respective individual units of the consumer products in the inventory management database; and

    a computing device including a programmable processor and being programmed to obtain, in response to a scan of at least one retailer label of at least one of the individual units of the consumer product at a retailer facility by an electronic device, at least one of the randomly-generated identifiers associated with the scanned at least one retailer label from the inventory management database in order to uniquely identify the at least one of the individual units of the consumer product and to track at least one worker task associated with the at least one of the individual units of the consumer product associated in the inventory management database with the obtained at least one of the randomly-generated identifiers.

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