ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,278, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).
"Card-type medium and card-type medium manufacturing method" was invented by Eriko Uehara (Tokyo), Yukiko Katano (Tokyo) and Shigeki Minemura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card-type medium includes a card body; an exposed component that is accommodated inside an opening formed in a front surface of the card body and is disposed so as to be partially exposed on the front surface; and a circuit board that is embedded in the card body and to which the exposed component is attached. The exposed component includes a first exposed component that is attached to the cir...