ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,062, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tonnjes ISI Patent Holding GmbH (Delmenhorst, Germany).

"Method and device for providing a licence plate, preferably a motor vehicle licence plate, with a data carrier" was invented by Piet Tonjes (Delmenhorst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for the automatic fitting of vehicle registration plates with data carriers. A plurality of work stations interlinked by at least one conveyor are provided for this purpose. The work stations are equipped with handling devices and associated imaging devices. As a result, a respective data carrier can be automatically gripped and placed in ...