Patent ID: 7649462

Claim:
A method for tracking garments, comprising: retrieving garments from one or more customer facilities; scanning at the one or more customer facilities for an RFID tag associated with the retrieved garments to obtain garment identifying information; delivering the retrieved garments to a garment provider facility; laundering the retrieved garment at the garment provider facility using RFID tag to track the retrieved garments through a laundering process; delivering laundered garments to a customer that has employees as part of a program to provide the customer with laundered garments into one or more customer facilities; scanning at the one or more customer facilities for the RFID tag associated with the laundered garments to obtain garment identifying information; and associating the garment identifying information with delivery information for the laundered garments, wherein the delivery information includes confirmation of delivery of the laundered garments into the one or more customer facilities.