ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,247, issued on May 6, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhove, Netherlands).

"RF communication device without temporary connection line, and manufacturing method" was invented by Egas Carvalho Henes Neto (Graz, Austria), Slawomir Rafal Malinowski (Graz, Austria), Ivan Jesus Rebollo Pimentel (Graz, Austria) and Thomas Pichler (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is described an RF communication device comprising: i) an RF antenna functionality; ii) at least one antenna pad connected to the RF antenna functionality; iii) a further functionality which is not an RF antenna functionality; and iv) at least one non-antenna pad electr...