ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,393, issued on June 23, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Method for producing a smart card inlay, smart card inlay and smart card" was invented by Jens Pohl (Bernhardswald, Germany), Frank Puschner (Kelheim, Germany) and Peter Stampka (Burglengenfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a smart card inlay, including: introducing an antenna wire into a surface of a carrier, wherein the antenna wire comprises metal having an insulating coating; pinching the antenna wire such that a partial region of the metal of the antenna wire is stripped of insulation; and soldering the insula...