Patent ID: 8577689

Claim:
A loss recover control management system for recovery of a pieces of jewelry without marking the jewelry in any way, including a computer having a processor and memory, an input and output device, comprising: a. creating a data table comprising a plurality of physical characteristics of the piece of jewelry, the plurality including at least a description, a weight and a color; each characteristic being assigned a particular one digit code, said one digit code corresponding to a digit in a concatenated multi-digit code comprising a plurality of characteristics and their parameters for each digit of the code; b. inputting data collected from examination of said jewelry, assigning said concatenated multi-digit code to the piece of jewelry, and storing the concatenated multi-digit code assigned to the jewelry into a database on a computer, the code having a plurality of digital positions with a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of physical characteristics as available from retrieval of the data table; c. inputting a digitized image of the jewelry into the data base and linking said digitized image with said concatenated multi-digit code; d. storing the concatenated multi-digit code linked to said digitized image into said database on said computer; and e. storing owner information into said computer and linking said concatenated multi-digit code to owner information; f. assessing a recovered piece of jewelry against the data table and assigning it a recovered concatenated multi-digit code based on its characteristics; g. searching said recovered concatenated multi-digit code in said data base; h. comparing near matching stored concatenated multi-digit codes with said recovered concatenated multi-digit code and displaying associated digitized image of said stored codes to the digitized image of the recovered jewelry, so that a determination can be made if the recovered jewelry matches jewelry in the data base without marking the jewelry with any concatenated multi-digit codes.