Patent ID: 7764174

Claim:
A system for tracing the authenticity and tracking the location of collectibles and reusables comprising: collectable(s), defined herein as an individual piece of art work or an art collection, a stamp collection or an individual stamp, a sports card collection or an individual card, sports memorabilia of any sort, currency collections or an individual piece of currency as well as items of a similar ilk including, but not limited to, designer label clothing, jewels and accessories, said system with respect to collectibles herein referred to as the Collectible's Cop; reusable(s) defined as packaging, containers, pallets or any other non consumable item utilized on the supply chain which reusable(s) requires tracking or tracing, said system with respect to reusables herein referred to as the Spot Chip; passive memory based transponder(s) associated with and attached to each collectible and/or reusable; planchettes; silicon antenna(s) as part of a system on a chip RFID transponder embedded into a planchette(s) and where the planchette is applied with adhesive friendly to the substrate of the collectable or reusable; a dust sized memory based passive transponder; a plurality of cellular telephone towers able to perform an operation by providing and/or receiving information bearing electromagnetic signals in a gigahertz frequency and where the information bearing electromagnetic signals in gigahertz frequency are in a detection region located within an urban cellular telephone network which have a plurality of antennae operatively coupled to a respective one of a plurality of memory based transponder readers for transmitting and/or receiving the information bearing electromagnetic signals; information stored in and produced from the electronic memory of the memory based RFID transponder that includes a permanent unique identification number plus application specific data and whereby said electromagnetic information is communicated between the electronic memory of the memory based RFID transponder and the memory based RFID transponder reader of a particular cellular telephone tower/station when the memory based RFID transponder is in the detection region of that particular station after initiation of the memory based RFID transponder; a computer processor for processing at least the information from the electromagnetic signals including application specific data and unique identification number obtained from the memory based RFID transponder readers at the plurality of stations and for providing a record of the data represented by the electromagnetic information signals gained from the memory based RFID transponder(s); hand held interrogators to harvest the data from the memory based RFID transponders, without beginning the initiation phase, for the purpose of determining authenticity.