ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,609, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hanshow Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiaxing, China).
"Electronic shelf label" was invented by Yanchen Li (Jiaxing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic shelf label, including: a TFT substrate integrated with an NFC coil, wherein the NFC coil is configured to realize an NFC function and is connected to an IC or an FPC to drive and control the NFC coil. In examples, the NFC function is integrated into the TFT substrate, so that the size of an FPC or a PCB can be reduced, which not only makes the electronic shelf label thinner and lighter, but also realizes the NFC function without increa...