Patent ID: 9741012
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer system, comprising: one or more hardware processors; a durable computer-readable hardware storage medium; and one or more computer-readable media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more hardware processors to configure the computer system to verifiably imprint tracking codes onto physical articles and package the physical articles into a grouping container, the computer-executable instructions including instructions that are executable to configure the computer system to perform at least the following: generate, at the one or more hardware processors, a plurality of different tracking codes that are part of a grouping of tracking codes; send the plurality of tracking codes towards an automated computer-controlled production line, along with one or more first messages that cause the production line to perform at least the following: receive at least one result of the verification by the one or more hardware verification units of the physical imprinting of each tracking code onto its corresponding article, and, for each tracking code: