ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,166, issued on March 25.
"Sealing tape" was invented by Kyeong Keun Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing tape to be used with a sealing device includes an adhesive surface to which an adhesive is applied and RFID tags are attached; and a non-adhesive surface being a back side of the adhesive surface. The sealing device includes a tape supply reel for supplying a sealing tape to which an RFID tag has been coupled; and a sealing part for sealing, with the sealing tape, an opening of a plastic packaging material holding a product, wherein the sealing part adheres the RFID tag, which is coupled to one ...