ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,139, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJITSU FRONTECH Ltd. (Tokyo).

"RFID tag" was invented by Akihiko Saito (Inagi, Japan), Yasunao Mizutani (Inagi, Japan), Yoshiyasu Sugimura (Inagi, Japan), Tsuyoshi Niwata (Inagi, Japan), Mimpei Miura (Inagi, Japan), Hideo Miyazawa (Inagi, Japan) and Mao Kikukawa (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RFID tag includes a sheet-like substrate, an IC chip disposed on a first face of the substrate, a conductive adhesive that is positioned around the IC chip along the first face and fixes the IC chip to the substrate, an antenna pattern formed on a second face, of the substrate, that is oppo...