ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,138, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FINELINE TECHNOLOGIES (Norcross, Ga.).

"Chemically treated, RFID equipped mesh tire labels and methods of making and using the same for identification and tracking purposes during and post-tire manufacture" was invented by Glenn M. Cassidy (O'Fallon, Mo.), Michael E. Borgna (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Jos Uijlenbroek (Ophemert, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chemically treated, RFID equipped mesh tire label configured to be integrally incorporated within a vulcanized tire and to provide unique identifier(s) and/or other information about the vulcanized tire during and post tire vulcanizatio...