ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,515, issued on May 13, was assigned to ALLFLEX UK GROUP LTD (Stanley, Great Britain).

"Radiofrequency identification tag devices" was invented by Ian Graydon Spoor (Stanley, Great Britain) and Keith Daniel James Heald (Stanley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined RFID tag and label device for attaching an elongate object such as a cable, cable bundle, or pipe. The device comprises a plastic flag having a display surface to carry a visible identification code or label for the device and includes an encapsulated RFID tag configured to provide remote-readable RFID data to an RFID reader. The device includes a device ...