ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,215, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IDEMIA FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).
"Chip card with radio-frequency antennas" was invented by Ahmed Ali (Courbevoie, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip card including a card body including a metal layer, an RF chip, and a first RF antenna placed in a cut-out zone and connected to the chip. The metal layer has two regions, the first region completely containing the cut-out zone. A first slit connects the cut-out zone to an edge of the first region, a second slit opens onto an edge of the layer or into the cut-out zone and ends in the second region. A second RF antenna allows coupling to ...