ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,574, issued on April 22, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).
"Foil card made from recycled raw materials" was invented by Camille Vialard (Roquevaire, France) and Laurence Ansaldi (Aubagne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a card comprising an antenna connected to a chip, the card comprising: A central PVC core made of recycled PVC supporting the antenna; Two recycled PVC layers, a front side PVC layer and a back side PVC layer, each PVC layer being laminated on a side of the central PVC core, the front side PVC layer being laminated on the side of the PVC core supporting the antenna; Two transpare...