Patent ID: 11865586
Assignee: SIEMENS LOGISTICS GMBH
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 17:
18. A luggage sorting system, wherein each piece of luggage includes an identification element with an information set in the form of machine-readable code and human-readable code, comprising:
a database having stored therein a dataset for each piece of luggage, the dataset containing the machine-readable code and human-readable code of the information set;
an information acquisition apparatus for automatically acquiring the information set in the form of human-readable code from the identification element and subjecting the human-readable code to optical character recognition if the machine-readable code is not recognizable; and
a checking unit configured to access the database in which the dataset with the machine-readable code and human-readable code is stored and to automatically verify, during a check, whether a part of the information set that has been recognized matches at least one dataset that is stored in the database.