Note: Claims are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
CLAIMS
The Embodiments Of The Invention In Which An Exclusive Property Or
Privilege Is Claimed Are Defined As Follows:
1. Implanting a computer chip into the rubber bands which are used on all
vegetables which are banded for resale in grocery stores for RFID reading
with GPS technology to identify the origin, processing, handling and
transportation of the product from the origin to the end location or
consumer.
2. Putting bar codes on the rubber bands which are used to band all products
such as celery, carrots, spinach, collards, Swiss chard, rapini, bok choy,
etc.
with a chip or UPC code and using RFID and GPS technology to identify the
origin, processing, handling and transportation of the product from its origin
to the end location or consumer.
3. Putting tags on Agricultural and Agri Foods with bar code information or a
computer chip for tracing with RFID and GPS technology with the intent of
identifying the product origin, processing, handling and transportation from
the product origin to the end location or end buyer.
4. Implanting a computer chip or a tag with a code in the bags which are used
for bagged fruits such as oranges, apples, etc. as well as bagged vegetables
such as onions, potatoes, garlic, etc. for the intent of using RFID and GPS
technology for the purpose of identifying the product origin, processing,
handling and transportation from the product origin to the end location or
end consumer.
5. Using RFID and GPS technology to trace the exact farm origin of each animal
before it goes to the abattoir or butcher.
6. Using RFID and GPS technology to log information of the animal source once
it gets to the abattoir or butcher before processing for meat cuts or other
meat products such as ground beef, ground chicken, ground turkey, lamb
chops, etc. for the purpose of retaining the origin of the animal, handling or
processing, logistics to the end location of the meat products.
7. Using RFID and GPS technology to trace other farm products such as milk,
cheese, sour cream, yoghurt, eggs, etc. for the purpose of tracing the product
origin, processing, handling and transportation to the end location or end
consumer.
8. Using UPC codes, coded tags or chip technology with the intent of using
RFID
and GPS technology to trace the original animal source for each cut of meat
so that it will be traced to the original source of the animal and logging
this
information into a database that is accessible online for purposes of
traceability.
9. Using RFID and GPS technology to trace the handling and logistics of the
Meat and Poultry products and logging all the information into an online
database which will be accessible to government authorities, supermarkets
and the end buyer.
10. Using software that incorporates RFID and GPS technology for the purpose
of
total traceability of Agriculture and Agro-Food products based on any or all
the information gathered in 1-9 above to present to the public and
government authorities via the Internet or in any electronic format such as
proprietary software or printed reports from such software applications that
manipulate data and providing reports to the public or government
authorities or wholesale buyers of such products.
11. Using software that incorporates RFID and GPS technology to provide total
traceability of Agriculture or Agri-Foods in any form (from the source to the
end consumer or there in between).
12. Using Information Technology (IT) in any form to create any software
systems that rely on such information as will be gathered in this patent
application that relies on the use of RFID and GPS technology for such
information gathering.