US Patent Issued to Mectron on Aug. 5 for "Insert assembly with radiofrequency identifier for medical device" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,941, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Mectron S.p.A. (Carasco, Italy).

"Insert assembly with radiofrequency identifier for medical device" was invented by Saverio Minutoli (Carasco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert assembly, insertable in a handpiece of a medical device, has an insert having an insert metal tang, a ferromagnetic layer in contact with the insert metal tang, a dielectric layer in contact with the ferromagnetic layer, an insert antenna in contact with the dielectric layer, having an insert antenna metal element and configured to receive and transmit electromagnetic fields, and an identification chip operat...