US Patent Issued to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services on Sept. 9 for "Flexible RFID tag having a helical antenna and an object gripped within the helical antenna" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,066, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).

"Flexible RFID tag having a helical antenna and an object gripped within the helical antenna" was invented by Ian J. Forster (Chelmsford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible RFID wire tag includes an RFID chip and an associated antenna formed of a deformable filament. The antenna may be helically shaped and deformable from an initial helical configuration to an expanded helical configuration having a greater diameter. An object or a portion of an object is positioned within an open interior of the helical antenn...