ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,277, issued on March 25, was assigned to Confidex Oy (Tampere, Fla.).
"RFID tag" was invented by Will Deng (Guangzhou, China), Heikki Ahokas (Tampere, Finland) and Miika Pylvanainen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RFID tag (1) comprises a substrate (2), an inlay (3), an antenna (4) and an integrated circuit on a chip (5) coupled to the antenna (4). The substrate (2) has a front surface (6), a back surface (7), a first side edge (8) and a second side edge (9). The inlay (3) comprises the antenna (4) and has a fold (10) that is configured to fold over one side edge (8, 9) of the substrate (2) from the front surface...