Patents by Inventor Mohamed Arif Salim

Mohamed Arif Salim 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).

  • Operation monitoring and enhanced host communications in systems employing electronic article surveillance and RFID tags
    Patent number: 7527198
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring operation and performance of electronic tags such as article surveillance (EAS) tags or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags such as by monitoring and reporting electronic tag readability and operator/system performance levels. The system includes an optical symbol reader and/or electronic tag sensor/deactivator that measures and reports values of reading, detection, or deactivation events during operation which may be indicative of electronic tag operability. The apparatus may further comprise a data accumulation device including memory storage to accumulate the measurement values for each set of electronic tags, and a programmed computing system to analyze the measured values and report on the results of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Datalogic Scanning, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Arif Salim, Harold C. Clifford, Alan Jackson Guess, Bruce Edward Paris