Patent ID: 11916308
Assignee: DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of detecting product ingredients in a product processing system having at least a control logic subsystem, a product module assembly, and a user interface subsystem, the method comprising:
placing a plurality of ingredient modules into said product module assembly having a plurality of ingredient module slots, each ingredient module having a RFID tag assembly;
detecting a position of each of said RFID tags associated with each of said plurality of ingredient modules via a plurality of detection devices in said control logic subsystem, the detection device comprising:
a magnetic field generating device adjacent each one of said plurality of ingredient module slots;
a split ring resonator assembly associated configured to focus at least a portion of a magnetic field produced by the magnetic field generating device, wherein the magnetic field generating device is configured to detect the presence of one of said ingredient modules by reading the RFID tag associated therewith; and
determining which of said plurality of ingredient modules is positioned in each of said ingredient module slots based on said RFID detection.