ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,264, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Battery antenna for smart label" was invented by Jorge Fabrega Sanchez (San Diego), Phillip Minh-Quang Vo Tran (San Diego), Ian Neumann (La Mesa, Calif.), Peter Lien (Carlsbad, Calif.), Neil Burns (San Diego) and Stein Lundby (Solana Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for reducing the form factor of smart labels. An example smart label includes a flexible circuit board comprising two or more layers, a communications circuit including at least one transceiver disposed on one of the two or more layers, an antenna tuning circuit dispose...