Patents by Inventor Gary T. Mazoki
Gary T. Mazoki 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).
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Patent number: 9324015Abstract: A solid housing tag and method to form the solid housing tag, the method including for example, an injection molding process. The solid housing tag has a single, continuous housing of which at least partially surrounds one or more various tag components arranged about a frame. The tag components may include a lock component and/or security component. The security component may include EAS elements, such as AM, EM, and/or RF technology elements; RFID elements; and/or benefit denial type elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: 9147355Abstract: An advertisement clip and method for supplementing a security hard tag with the advertisement clip for application to a product. The advertisement clip may include indicia on the surface of the clip or may hold or enclose an information element that provides the indicia to the manufacturer, retailer, and/or customer. Indicia may be visible and can include promotional information, pricing, images, customer specific branding, and/or barcodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anthony F. Piccoli, Thomas J. McKeown, Gary T. Mazoki, Brennan Bradley, Seth Strauser, James Brodzik
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Patent number: 9129201Abstract: A technology clip and method for supplementing a security tag with the technology clip for application to a product. The technology clip includes a technology element providing for an additional security and/or an identification feature when coupled to a tag, thus enhancing features of the security tag. The technology clip attaches about the tag and remains secured to the tag for when the tag is affixed to merchandise.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gary T. Mazoki, Thomas J. McKeown, Morui Li, Wei Wu
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Patent number: 8938997Abstract: A security device and method to surround merchandise for theft deterrence. The security device includes a cord and housing for a knot in the cord. The cord is pulled from one end about the knot to tighten cord around a product and the cord is pulled from another section to lock cord in place around the product. The device serves to deter breaking in or stealing merchandising product. The security device may also include an additional housing for the cord to pass through. Either housing may include an EAS and/or RFID element for additional security.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anthony F. Piccoli, Wei Wu, Lawrence Appalucci, Gary T. Mazoki, Thomas J. McKeown, Seth Strauser, James Brodzik
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Publication number: 20140259836Abstract: An advertisement clip and method for supplementing a security hard tag with the advertisement clip for application to a product. The advertisement clip may include indicia on the surface of the clip or may hold or enclose an information element that provides the indicia to the manufacturer, retailer, and/or customer. Indicia may be visible and can include promotional information, pricing, images, customer specific branding, and/or barcodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Anthony F. Piccoli, Thomas J. McKeown, Gary T. Mazoki, Brennan Bradley, Seth Strauser, James Brodzik
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Publication number: 20130313327Abstract: A solid housing tag and method to form the solid housing tag, the method including for example, an injection molding process. The solid housing tag has a single, continuous housing of which at least partially surrounds one or more various tag components arranged about a frame. The tag components may include a lock component and/or security component. The security component may include EAS elements, such as AM, EM, and/or RF technology elements; RFID elements; and/or benefit denial type elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: 7183917Abstract: A re-usable identification tag that includes a combination of RFID (radio frequency identification) elements and EAS (electronic article surveillance) elements, or multiple RFID elements without an EAS element, or multiple EAS elements without RFID elements. Systems and methods for tracking or detecting a re-usable identification tag having multiple elements therein to correspond with multiple detection zones such that as the re-usable tag moves from one detection zone to another, the tag can be tracked and/or activate an alarm and/or transmit data to a database.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anthony F. Piccoli, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: 7129843Abstract: A security tag includes a combination of a resonant frequency circuit with an adjacent amplification shield for enhancing output signal amplitude. The amplification shield is located adjacent to the resonant frequency circuit and is preferably in the same or substantially the same plane as the resonant frequency circuit or is in a close, generally parallel plane. In an exemplary embodiment, the resonant frequency circuit includes an inductor electrically coupled to a capacitor. The resonant frequency circuit has a center frequency and is arranged to resonate in response to exposure to electromagnetic energy at or near the center frequency, providing an output signal having an amplitude. The amplification shield is arranged to direct a portion of the electromagnetic energy to the resonant frequency circuit to amplify the amplitude of the output signal from the resonant frequency circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anthony F. Piccoli, Lawrence Appalucci, David Lopez Perez, Luis Francisco SolerBonnin, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: 7081818Abstract: A tracking system uses RFID (radio frequency identification) tag technology to facilitate the identification and tracking of items in an environment through a technique known as shadowing. As an object or target moves within a pre-described detection zone with communicating antenna and RFID sensors, the object or target blocks the line of sight between respective antenna and sensors, preventing electromagnetic coupling between the sensor and the antenna and thus casting an electromagnetic shadow along the line of sight. One approach of this invention uses this shadow technique to perform functions such as theft (shrink) deterrence/detection; tracking the motion of objects through an environment by monitoring the shadow; and correlation analysis of people shadows to tagged items (e.g., merchandise, articles) to foster marketing and merchandizing effectiveness.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2004Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Eric Eckstein, Gary T. Mazoki, William S. Richie, Jr.
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Patent number: 7042413Abstract: A three-dimensional dipole antenna system for an RFID tag that optimizes detection for a given available volume in which to situate the RFID tag.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2004Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gary T. Mazoki, Anthony F. Piccoli, Thomas J. Clare, Eric Eckstein
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Publication number: 20040233042Abstract: A re-usable identification tag that includes a combination of RFID (radio frequency identification) elements and EAS (electronic article surveillance) elements, or multiple RFID elements without an EAS element, or multiple EAS elements without RFID elements. Systems and methods for tracking or detecting a re-usable identification tag having multiple elements therein to correspond with multiple detection zones such that as the re-usable tag moves from one detection zone to another, the tag can be tracked and/or activate an alarm and/or transmit data to a database.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS, INCInventors: Anthony F. Piccoli, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: 5841350Abstract: A resonant tag circuit useful as an electronic security device includes a layered planar structure having a dielectric substrate, a resonant circuit carried on both sides of the dielectric substrate and a semiconductive material having an ionizable salt dissolved therein. The semiconductor material provides a sermiconductive bridge across an activation or deactivation point in the circuit and connects the conductive circuit on both sides of the activation or deactivation point. The resonant tag circuit of this invention is stabilized against premature operation of the activation or deactivation point from electrostatic discharge.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Appalucci, John H. Bowers, Gary T. Mazoki, Thomas J. McKeown, Anthony F. Piccoli, Mark J. Rankin, Stanley Tocker
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Patent number: 5574431Abstract: A security tag used with an electronic article surveillance system for detecting the presence of the tag within a surveilled area utilizing electromagnetic energy at a frequency within a predetermined detection frequency range includes a dielectric substrate having first and second opposing principle surfaces and a resonant circuit capable of resonating at a frequency within the predetermined detection frequency range. The resonant circuit includes an inductor formed at least in part on one of the principal surfaces of the substrate. A first perforation path formed of a series of spaced apart perforations extends along a line across the substrate and through at least a portion of the inductor such that a stress exerted on the tag breaks the tag and the inductor along the first perforation path, causing an open circuit condition which prevents the resonant circuit from resonating.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1995Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Thomas J. McKeown, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: 5276431Abstract: A security tag for use with an electronic security system is used for attachment to an article having an inherent capacitance such as meat. The security system includes a transmitter for transmitting into a surveilled area electromagnetic energy having a center frequency within a predetermined detection frequency range and a receiver for detecting within the surveilled area the presence of a security tag resonating at a frequency within the detection frequency range in response to the electromagnetic energy. The tag includes a generally planar dielectric substrate having a first side and a second side. Circuitry on the substrate establishes a resonant circuit having a resonant frequency which is initially a predetermined frequency interval above the center frequency of the detection frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1992Date of Patent: January 4, 1994Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anthony F. Piccoli, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: D696150Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: D696151Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: D696600Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: D705686Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: D706662Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki
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Patent number: D714670Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Wu, Yong Qiao, Gary T. Mazoki