Patent ID: 9649551
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A47B,A47C,A63F,G01S

Claim:
1. A system for determining the location of objects comprising: one or more structures; one or more bodies each forming a thin flexible sheet including a plurality of sensors, wherein the bodies are each releasably coupled to one or more of the structures; one or more objects having one or more sensor tags, wherein each of the sensor tags store a unique identifier and one or more characteristics about the object including a material contained within the object; and one or more controllers coupled to the sensors for receiving signals from the sensors when the objects are proximate the sensors such that the controllers are able to determine the location of the objects, wherein the controllers are configured to only check if the objects are proximate a selected subset of the sensors for a plurality of consecutive checking cycles such that all the sensors of the selected subset are checked multiple times without checking any of the sensors not in the subset, wherein the subset is selected by a user based on user input.