ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,541, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to JT International S.A. (Switzerland).
"Printed circuit board with NFC-antenna" was invented by Kyle Adair (Lisburn, Great Britain), Olayiwola Olamiposi Popoola (Walton-on-Thames, Great Britain) and Peter Loveday (Epsom, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board mechanically supports electrical and/or electronic components for an electronic smoking article. The board includes at least one flexible portion and at least one rigidized portion, wherein the flexible portion and the rigidized portion include a common flexible layer stack including at least one structured meta...