Smartrac Investment Assigned Patent

Smartrac Investment B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been assigned a patent (9,977,932) developed by Rietzler, Manfred, Marktoberdorf, Germany, for a “method and arrangement for providing and managing information linked to RFID data storage media in a network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method provides and manages information linked to RFID data storage media in a network with data transmission between an RFID data storage medium and an RFID reading unit, integrated in a mobile radio device, for reading the data stored on the RFID data storage medium. A data link is set up to a network server in a network via a radio interface of the mobile radio device. A data memory area on the network server is associated with the RFID data storage medium. An arrangement provides and manages information linked to RFID data storage media in a network. The arrangement includes an RFID data storage medium, a mobile radio device with an integrated RFID reading unit for reading RFID data records, and a network with a network server. The network server has a data memory area which is associated with the RFID data storage medium.”

The patent application was filed on January 13, 2017 (15/405,360).