Patents by Inventor Thomas Tim Hanis

Thomas Tim Hanis 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).

  • Manifest integrity management via radio frequency identification (RFID)
    Patent number: 8570159
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for manifest integrity management via radio frequency identification (RFID). A manifest integrity management method can include scanning different RFID tags affixed to different objects for placement in a container. The method also can include determining both common data for all of the different RFID tags, and unique data for each of the different RFID tags. Finally, the method can include encoding an RFID tag for the container with an entry for the common data for the different RFID tags, and each unique data for each of the different RFID tags. In this way, a manifest can be created for the objects in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Kumar Bhadriraju, Thomas Tim Hanis, Frederick William Rowe, John Kenneth Senegal, Donnie Allen Smith, Jr.