Patent ID: 9613235
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06K

Claim:
1. A system for encoding an RFID inlay incorporated in an object, the object having indicia disposed thereon, comprising: an object transporting mechanism; an internal scanner for scanning the indicia; at least one RFID antenna for encoding the RFID inlay; a processor in communication with and adapted to control the operation of the object transporting mechanism, the scanner, and the at least one RFID antenna; a sorting device configured to direct successfully encoded tags to one location and failed tags to another location; an object sensor that detects a presence of the object on the object transporting mechanism and the object sensor is coupled to a computing device in communication with the processor, and a quality control and error handling procedures; an ultraviolet illumination source; a non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor; instructions stored on the medium and executable by the processor, the instructions including data read by the scanner; and data to be sent to the at least one RFID antenna.