ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,557, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).

"RFID device for injection molding" was invented by Brad Cumby (Liberty Township, Ohio), Katariina Penttila (Tampere, Finland), Antti Valtonen (Tampere, Finland) and Tiina Vuorinen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) device for an injection molded product comprising layers of different components to reduce thermal shrinkage or expansion and failure of the RFID inlay due to the high temperatures during injection molding. The introduced device allows for a t...