ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,253, issued on June 17, was assigned to EGF-Eduard G Fidel GMBH (Pforzheim, Germany).

"Jewelry ring having a RFID transponder and a reading arrangement" was invented by Stefan Schiffer (Eisingen, Germany) and Kai-F. Binder (Pforzheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jewelry ring, such as a jewelry finger ring which is worn in particular on the finger, has a metal base body, which forms a fitting receptacle, and a radio-frequency identification (i.e., "RFID") transponder in which readable data are stored and which has an antenna structure via which signals can be transmitted to a reading device. It is provided here that the R...