Patents by Inventor Dean Lee Frew

Dean Lee Frew has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • RFID enterprise inventory management systems and methods
    Patent number: 11526839
    Abstract: Systems and methods to maintain inventory location data in an enterprise inventory management system, wherein the system includes a global inventory database subsystem for cataloging a plurality of inventory items, each of the inventory items identified in the database by at least a unique identification code and a physical location. The system, and related method, detects, using a motion detection subsystem, movement within a region between a first physical zone and a second physical zone; enables, in response to detecting movement, an RFID interrogator subsystem; identifies, utilizing the RF interrogator subsystem, any inventory items moving from the first physical zone to the second physical zone; and, reports, to the global inventory database subsystem, the identity of each identified inventory item, whereby the global inventory database system can update the physical location of each item from the first physical zone to the second physical zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Curtis James Stankovich, Dean Lee Frew
  • RFID ENTERPRISE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20200372443
    Abstract: Systems and methods to maintain inventory location data in an enterprise inventory management system, wherein the system includes a global inventory database subsystem for cataloging a plurality of inventory items, each of the inventory items identified in the database by at least a unique identification code and a physical location. The system, and related method, detects, using a motion detection subsystem, movement within a region between a first physical zone and a second physical zone; enables, in response to detecting movement, an RFID interrogator subsystem; identifies, utilizing the RF interrogator subsystem, any inventory items moving from the first physical zone to the second physical zone; and, reports, to the global inventory database subsystem, the identity of each identified inventory item, whereby the global inventory database system can update the physical location of each item from the first physical zone to the second physical zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Leroy Tennill, Craig Lawrence Tennill, Travis Clayton Ernst, Curtis James Stankovich, Dean Lee Frew