US Patent Issued to IDEMIA FRANCE on July 7 for "Metal smart card with radio-frequency antenna and method for manufacturing such a smart card" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,663, issued on July 7, was assigned to IDEMIA FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Metal smart card with radio-frequency antenna and method for manufacturing such a smart card" was invented by Ahmed Ali (Courbevoie, France) and Tiphaine Groult (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart card that includes a metal layer including a cavity and a junction connecting the cavity to an edge of the card, an RF chip, an RF antenna electrically connected to the RF chip by a conductive physical connection, the antenna being disposed on a non-conductive layer deposited onto the metal layer, the RF chip being disposed in the vicinity of t...