Patent ID: 6847856

Claim:
A computer implemented method for determining physical juxtaposition between a first component and a second component, the method comprising the steps of: determining, using one or more RFID readers, one or more relative locations between one or more RFID tags in a first set of RFID tags and one or more RFID tags in a second set of RFID tags; determining one or more physical distances between said one or more RFID tags in said first set of RFID tags and said one or more RFID tags in said second set of RFID tags based on said one or more determined relative locations, each RFID tag in the first set of RFID tags attached in a fixed positional relationship with the first component and each RFID tag in the second set of RFID tags attached in a fixed positional relationship with the second component; and determining juxtaposition between the first component and the second component based on said determined physical distances between said RFID tags in said first set of RFID tags and said RFID tags in said second set of RFID tags.