US Patent Issued to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services on April 29 for "RFID antenna formed by multiple cutting processes" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,118, issued on April 29, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).

"RFID antenna formed by multiple cutting processes" was invented by Ian Forster (Chelmsford, Great Britain) and Edward McGinniss (Clinton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an antenna for an RFID device includes providing a conductive material on a substrate and performing a first cutting process on the conductive material to define an initial antenna. Additional cutting processes are performed on the initial antenna to define a final antenna, with the first and any subsequent cutting processes being dif...