ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,940, issued on July 8, was assigned to EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN S.A. (Marin, Switzerland).

"Tamper-evident RFID tag and method thereof" was invented by Pierre Muller (Marin, Switzerland), Yves Dupraz (Valeyres sous Montagny, Switzerland), Alexis Durand (Cudrefin, Switzerland) and Gordon Limond (Payerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tamper-evident RFID Tag (100) and a method for manufacturing it. The method (500) may provide (510) at least one protection layer (151) before being cured (520) such as to turn the at least one protection layer (151) into at least one degradable layer (155), and to prevent an assembly or a r...