Patent ID: 8365996

Claim:
A method for visual tool identification comprising the steps of: ascertaining identification information concerning subscribers and entering it into a database; from said subscribers, eliciting areas of geographic use of tools by employees and associating it with said subscriber in said database; from said subscribers, eliciting identification information of individual tools in said subscriber's inventory of said tools and associating it with said subscriber in said database; ascertaining a unique indicia identifier which may be assigned to each subsequent said subscriber, which is not confusable with another said indicia identifier in said geographic area of use of said subsequent subscriber; assigning said unique indicia identifier to each said subscriber and associating said respective unique indicia identifier with a respective said subscriber in said database, for a placement on each said respective tool identified to a respective subscriber in said database, providing said unique indicia identifier to each respective said subscriber for affixation to said tools in said respective inventory of tools of said respective subscriber, whereby said tools may be identified with a specific owner by a viewing of a respective said unique indicia identifier; and providing said unique indicia identifier in the form of replacement handles for said tools, said replacement handles bearing said unique indicia identifier.