US Patent Issued to Ferret Systems on July 29 for "Electronic tracking label with a fold-over battery attachment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,766, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ferret Systems Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Electronic tracking label with a fold-over battery attachment" was invented by Gary Leung (San Jose, Calif.), Venu Gutlapalli (San Diego) and Joseph Reddy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic tracking tag that attaches a battery to the tag's circuitry by folding over a portion of the flexible PCB on top of the battery to secure it between two conductive pads. This configuration eliminates the need for a battery holder, thereby reducing weight, cost, and thickness and enabling a label containing the electronics to be fed through a print...