US Patent Issued to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services on Feb. 18 for "Textile RFID transponder and method for applying a textile RFID transponder to textiles" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,617, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).

"Textile RFID transponder and method for applying a textile RFID transponder to textiles" was invented by Stephan Buhler (Buchs, Switzerland) and Dirk Boltersdorf (Kreuzau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A textile RFID transponder (20) has a textile carrier substrate (19) with a flat thread structure (16). At least one electrically conductive antenna thread (17) is introduced into the flat thread structure (16) of the textile carrier substrate (19). An RFID chip module (15) with a chip-bound module antenna (11) is applied to...