US Patent Issued to LINXENS HOLDING on May 13 for "Pre-package for a smartcard, a smartcard and a method of forming the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,573, issued on May 13, was assigned to LINXENS HOLDING (Mantes-la-Jolie, France).

"Pre-package for a smartcard, a smartcard and a method of forming the same" was invented by Carsten Nieland (Gotha, Germany) and Sven Doring (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When forming smartcards or pre-forms thereof additional functionality may be implemented by, for instance, incorporating components, such as a display device, and the like, by preparing pre-packages separately from the rest of the pre-forms and subsequently inserting the pre-packages into the pre-forms, thereby achieving superior process robustness and production yie...