US 7,559,483 B2
	Smart supplies, components and capital equipment
Randall S. Hickle, Lubbock, Tex. (US); and Samsun Lampotang, Gainesville, Fla. (US)
Assigned to Scott Laboratories, Inc., Lubbock, Tex. (US)
Filed on Sep. 07, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/898,063.
Application 11/898063 is a division of application No. 10/151255, filed on May 21, 2002, granted, now 7,299,981.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/291943, filed on May 21, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2008/0061153 A1, Mar. 13, 2008
Int. Cl. G06K 19/06 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 235—492  [235/375; 235/383; 235/384; 235/385]

25 Claims

1. An electronic tag for storing and providing information regarding a tagged object, comprising an electronically readable data transmitter coupled to a breakable conductive element, said data transmitter being adapted to transmit previously stored data regarding said tagged object, and said breakable conductive loop causes a first signal to be transmitted with said previously stored data when said breakable conductive material is intact and a second signal to be transmitted with said previously stored data after said breakable conductive material is broken.