US Patent Issued to Metaland on Sept. 30 for "Plating and coating of RFID enabled metal transaction cards with mechanically engraved and laser etched features" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,735, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Metaland LLC (Doral, Fla.).

"Plating and coating of RFID enabled metal transaction cards with mechanically engraved and laser etched features" was invented by David Finn (Fussen Weissensee, Germany), Darren Molloy (Killour, Ireland) and Daniel Pierrard (Killour, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encapsulating the rear side of a top metal layer of a metal transaction card with a thermosetting resin, applying a primer to the front side of the top metal layer and drying in an oven before spraying a thermoset powder coating thereon, laser etching and mechanically engraving graphic elements i...